Lisbon pulls all the girls out of school, claiming that it would help the girls recover from Cecilia's suicide. Consequently, the Lisbons become recluses. After having sex with Trip on the high school football field after the dance, Lux misses her curfew. Lisbon to take Lux to a homecoming dance, on the condition that he finds dates for the other three girls. Trip negotiates with the overprotective Mr. Lux begins a romance with local heartthrob Trip Fontaine. The mystique of the Lisbon girls operates also for the neighborhood boys, the narrators of the novel. The cause of Cecilia's suicide and its after-effects on the family are popular subjects of neighborhood gossip. A few weeks later, the girls throw a chaperoned party, during which Cecilia jumps from their second story window and dies, impaled by a fence post. Their lives change dramatically within one summer when Cecilia, a stoic and astute girl described as an "outsider", attempts suicide by cutting her wrists. The family has five daughters: 13-year-old Cecilia, 14-year-old Lux, 15-year-old Bonnie, 16-year-old Mary, and 17-year-old Therese. The father, Ronald, is a math teacher at a private school and the mother is a homemaker. The Lisbons are a Catholic family living in Grosse Pointe, Michigan in the 1970s.
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