![]() ![]() ![]() To take that final step, that ultimate act of definitive agency, seems the greatest act of teen defiance. It can be argued that Jeffrey Eugenides’ debut novel, The Virgin Suicides (reissued here by Picador) ushered in our era of fascination with the tragically dead or generally emotionally anguished beautiful teen female. ![]() Eager readers of the early ’90s had, of course, been inundated by a range of renditions of the romantic inevitability of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and the eternal longings in the works of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton never failed to make their way into high school freshman college English literature classes. The audience for contemporary teen tragic literature in 1993 never had to deal with the magic formulas of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton, 2012) or Jay Asher’s 13 Reasons Why (Razorbill, 2007). ![]()
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