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ru_th 's review for:
The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Hardly have we begun to palpate their grief than we find ourselves wondering whether this particular wound was mortal or not, or whether (in our blind doctoring) it’s a wound at all. It might just as well be a mouth, which is as wet and as warm. The scar might be over the heart or the kneecap. We can’t tell. All we can do is go groping up the legs and arms, over the soft bivalvular torso, to the imagined face. It is speaking to us. But we can’t hear.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gore, Sexual content, Stalking