50 States of Literatue: Next Stop, Michigan | Columbia Spectator

/ Book Recommendations / By Mary Daniels Brown / January 30, 2008

The Columbia Spectator offers up the second in its series of the 50 states in literature with its entry for Michigan: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. I’ve not read this one, although Eugenides’s Middlesex was very popular with my book group.

Spectator praises Virgin Suicides for its portrayal of the “awkward tenderness of first love and the comforting rhythm of small-town life.”

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Mary Daniels Brown

Mary Daniels Brown learned at an early age how to read people, and she’s been doing that ever since. Combining advanced education in both literature and psychology, she reads and reviews novels that explore identity, the search for meaning and purpose in life, and the varieties of human experience. She’s been blogging about books at Notes in the Margin for more than 25 years. Mary believes that her focus on Life Stories in Literature has made her both a more astute reader and a happier, more human person.

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