Hey team - Grab your flannel, power up your brick of a cell phone and wallow in your Gen X ennui, we're heading to the '90s, baby! For our summer theme this year we're expanding the scope of our book club timeline just a bit to read American novels published in the 1990s, a pivotal decade if ever there was one. The last dregs of the 20th century-that-was running right into the technological, political and societal changes that ushered in the 21st. For our first book of the summer we will be reading Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides. Published in 1993, the novel depicts the lives and, as the title implies, deaths of the five Lisbon sisters, as seen through the eyes of the neighborhood boys in a suburb of Detroit. As the boys try to piece together the mystery of the Lisbon sisters, the novel explores themes of youth and death in America suburbia.
Obviously the novels deals with themes of suicide. Depends on the edition but most versions are between 250 - 270 pages.