From a safe distance, all the people in the neighborhood watch the Lisbons' lives deteriorate, but no one can summon up the courage to intervene.ĭuring this time, the Lisbons become increasingly fascinating to the neighborhood in general and the narrator boys in particular. A strange smell coming from the house permeates the neighborhood. Their house falls into a deeper state of disrepair none of them leave the house and no one visits, not even to deliver milk and groceries. Lisbon officially takes a leave of absence. A few months after Lux is sent to the hospital because of a pregnancy scare-which her parents were told was simply indigestion-Mr. However, despite her attempt to protect the girls from boys and sex, over the winter, Lux is seen having sex with various unknown men on the roof nightly. 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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