Cecilia Lisbon Timeline and Summary

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Cecilia Lisbon Timeline and Summary

  • Cecilia at thirteen is the "weird sister," interested in occult stuff and constantly wearing a shabby vintage wedding dress. She keeps a diary chronicling the everyday event of her and her sisters.
  • She goes to school but doesn't really talk much to anyone and has no good friends.
  • On a June day, she slits her wrists and climbs naked into the bathtub. A neighborhood boy who was sneaking around the house found her and called the police.
  • The paramedics arrive and find her bleeding and pale but still alive, holding a laminated photo of the Virgin Mary.
  • The doctor at the hospital sews up her wrists and gives her a blood transfusion.
  • After a week in the hospital, she's sent home, with a psychiatrist's recommendation that she be allowed to socialize and wear makeup appropriate to a girl her age.
  • She spends her time sitting outside, one of her sisters with her at all times.
  • Two weeks after she gets home, Mr. Lisbon persuades his wife to let the girls have a party.
  • Cecilia keeps to herself at the party, sitting alone with a blank look, wearing the old wedding dress and crayon for lipstick.
  • She's wearing bracelets taped on to hide the scars on her wrists.
  • Just as the party gets going, she asks to be excused.
  • She pulls off her bracelets, has a glass of juice, and walks upstairs, looking at nobody.
  • She opens the window in her bedroom and jumps.
  • She lands on a spike of an iron fence in the Lisbon yard and dies.