The Virgin Suicides | Summary
While the narrative describes the demise of the five Lisbon sisters in a Detroit suburb during the early 1970s, the story itself is told some two decades later by witnesses to the events. The Virgin Suicides is unique in that its narrative voice is first-person plural: “we” rather than “I”. The “we” is a group of teenage boys who live in the same neighborhood as the Lisbons and who as adults still try to comprehend the suicides. The number of boys in the novel is intentionally never made clear, though the film adaptation chose four.
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