THE VIRGINS

The events of 1979-80 reverberate around the campus of Auburn Academy and linger
many years later in the mind of narrator Bruce Bennett-Jones. Aviva Rossner and
Seung Jung are an unlikely couple at the elite East Coast boarding school and a
re not shy in flaunting their newly discovered sexuality. Their blossoming relat
ionship is watched with envy and fascination by Bruce and other classmates, who
believe their liaison to be one of pure, unadulterated passion and pleasure.




But nothing is what it seems, and as Aviva and Seung struggle to understand them
selves and each other, things begin to fall apart. Their ultimate descent into s
hame and betrayal has disastrous consequences beyond their own lives.