The author has said both his novels attempt “not to make something mundane strange, but rather, to make something that is somewhat freaky more normal.”Įugenides, of Chicago, was born in Detroit in 1960 and earned his bachelor's degree from Brown University in the Ivy League. His 1993 novel made into a movie by Sofia Coppola he's seen three times concerns five Lisbon sisters taking their own lives from the voyeuristic perspective of a group of neighborhood boys. His nephew's 15-year-old babysitter here in Michigan inspired his first novel, “The Virgin Suicides,” Dogwood FIne Arts Festival Visiting Author Jeffrey Eugenides told Union High students Wednesday evening in Dowagiac Middle School's media center.
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