It is a rare book that feels absolutely essential to and evocative of the decade but also not at all bound by it. As Emma Cline wrote in a new introduction to the novel. Even as Eugenides interrogates the postwar suburban dream, the dying empire of a Michigan town, there s a sense of timelessness, the setting both immediate and otherworldly, toggling between the daily boredoms of teen-agers and a realm almost mythic when Cecilia slits her wrists, the paramedics with the stretcher are described as slaves offering the victim to the altar, Cecilia as the drugged virgin rising up on her elbows, with an otherworldly smile on her pale lips.
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