Related from heaven after a brutal rape, Susie watches her family grieve and disintegrate, watches her friends and indeed watches her killer and the sad detective working on her case. Over the years we live and cry with them for our wonderful narrator truly makes you feel all their pain and joys. In the end it is an uplifting book despite its subject matter, and above all it is a truly memorable book.
An emotional story told by a murdered young girl as she watches her family grieve and her killer try to cover up his crimes.
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An emotional story told by a murdered young girl as she watches her family grieve and her killer try to cover up his crimes."My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her-her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling.
The Lovely Bones features in the following genres: eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Fiction
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The Lovely Bones was written by Alice Sebold and published by Little, Brown and Company
The Lovely Bones has 368 pages
