By Jeffery Eugenides.This is a story about a family which has to live through our worst nightmares. Five daughters of the Lisbon family commit suicide. The story is told in past sense by a group of boys who had lived across the street from the Lisbon girls. Cecilia Lisbon is the first to go. She tries to commit suicide unsuccessfully by slitting her wrists, but finally succeeds by jumping off the second floor window onto the sharp garden fence.
The book is about the mindset of the remaining girls who have to live with the pity and the stigma against the family and themselves.They finally decide its too much and decide to end it all.
The book is engaging from start to end and an amazing read.
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