Lux Lisbon catches Trip Fontaine’s eye, as he drives by in his car. The neighborhood is preparing for autumn and the kids are returning to school. Since no one knows what happened, people read through Cecilia’s diary for answers about why she killed herself or why her sisters did too. The cemetery workers go on strike so that Cecilia must remain in the mortuary until it ends. Paramedics are able to save her life, but she ends up jumping out of a window at home after returning from the hospital. Cecilia is found in a bathtub with her wrists slit open. She and her four sisters committed suicide, and the book goes back in time to show readers how they got there. The story starts with an ambulance arriving to pick up Mary Lisbon’s body. At that time they were teenagers and their story is one of passive happiness and manufactured results-dire ones at that. The reader knows from the start what happens to the five girls, as told from a group of men’s point of view twenty years later. The Virgin Suicides takes place in the early 1970s, set in an American suburb. 1-Page Summary of The Virgin Suicides Overall Summary
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