The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Captivatingly voyeuristic, deliciously disturbing. Eugenides captures that cringe you get when you see a gaping wound or hear too much about an acquaintance's personal life. The story is sickly fascinating, the writing addictive and the characters blank, evanescent, holy.
By far the best piece of literature I have picked up in a while. I could rant on about Eugenides' vicious condemnation of the upper-middle-class white suburban nuclear family, but it might spoil the gentle luminosity of this story.
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