A fellow avid reader, Joan, just sent me a link to his review of The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides: 
http://jmlanfranco.blogspot.com/2008/09/virgin-suicides-by-jeffrey-eugenides.html  It's so interesting because I really wasn't aware that he had written this book, although I saw the film a while ago.  It intrigues me because I wonder how he gets such insight to the pysche of adolescent girls.  I will have to look for the book at the library and think about it.