Compelling, profound, brilliant: the story of a Greek-American immigrant family—about intersexuality and love, identity and happiness. Biography (Jeffrey Eugenides) Jeffrey Eugenides, born in 1960 in Detroit, Michigan, now lives in Berlin with his wife and daughter, where he was drawn by scholarships from the DAAD and the American Academy. His debut novel, *The Virgin Suicides*, caused a worldwide sensation and was adapted into a film by Sofia Coppola in 2000. Like Jonathan Franzen, critics in *The New Yorker* magazine included him among the "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century," and in *Granta* magazine, he was named one of the "Best Young American Novelists."