The Virgin Suicides

The story of the Lisbon sisters was a tragedy from the beginning. Living in a household where parents checked what the daughters were wearing every time they were outside, a dad who was a teacher at the girls' school, and a psychotic mother (to say the least), the Lisbon sisters seemed almost perfectly set up for disaster. The author writes the book in a way that he doesn't exactly focus on the daughters suicides, but rather talks about their lives. He is the author who writes a paragraph to describe the color pink, as if making the object part of the list of characters. He writes in extreme detail, so that at the end of the book reader's feel like they have witnessed everything first hand. For a person like me, some parts of the book dragged on, but then there were other times where I couldn't put the book down. There was no way story of the Lisbon sister's would turn out okay, but the story behind the girls will never die.