The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Virgin Suicides: Genre 1 key example

Chapter 3
Explanation and Analysis:

The Virgin Suicides is a coming-of-age novel, though it approaches the genre in an unusual and somewhat macabre way. It explores the impact of the Lisbon sisters’ short lives and eventual suicides on a group of local adolescent boys who narrate the story. Initially, the boys idolize the sisters, who appear to them both alluring and remote.