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A review by missangelcakes
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
5.0
A hopeless story without heroes or villains, without cause and effect. and yet it manages to be a beautifully tragic retelling of the pain and nihilism of adolescence. I felt that only when I stopped craving answers and explanations and gave up on trying to understand I started to actually grasp this book. I think as readers we are supposed to understand as little about “the sense” behind things as the boys understand about the Lisbon sisters. When we think we might be getting close to a big revelation it slips right through or fingers.
“They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind. What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”
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“They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind. What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”
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