AUDIOBOOKS- THE VIRGIN SUICIDES BY JEFFREY EUGENIDES

The novel is atypical in that it was written in first persona plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who became infatuated with the girls, a style mirroring a Greek chorus The narrator(s) rely on relics and interviews gathered in the two decades after the suicide to construct the tale. The novel is rich in descriptive detail, using observations about the state of the Lisbon house and the contents of the girls’ rooms to advance the plot. The effect is that the reader glimpses the novel’s main characters as if she or he were one of the neighborhood onlookers.