On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide — it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese — the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a ’ First published in 1993, the haunting, humorous and tender story of the brief lives of the five entrancing Lisbon sisters is Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeffrey Eugenides classic debut novel.