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The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold. Little, Brown, & Company: 2002 (hardcover). ISBN: 0316666343. 328 pages.
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The Lovely Bones is the lovely and amazing story of Susie Salmon, the most dynamic teenage murder victim ever to narrate a novel. Fourteen-year-old Susie has only been dead about a week as she addresses us from heaven, a place that takes a bit of getting used to in the beginning. Lonely and uneasy in her unbelievably felicitous new environment, Susie spends the majority of her time looking down on the family and friends she has left behind in the land of the living. In the weeks, months, and eventually years that pass following her untimely death, Susie continues to observe her loved ones as they struggle to overcome the crippling grief of loss, as each of her friends and family members seeks his or her own way to make sense of the totally senseless horror of her death. This would have been an incredibly powerful story of a family's collective response to tragedy even without Sebold's creative masterstroke of choosing a dead girl to narrate, but Susie's perspective and presence make this novel something transcendent, strange, and wonderfully unique.
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