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When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didnt happen. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death, and her own adjustment to the strange new place she finds herself. (It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swingset.) With love, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie watches her family as they cope with their griefher father embarks on a search for the killer, her sister undertakes a feat of amazing daring, her little brother builds a fort in her honorand begin the difficult process of healing. In the hands of a brilliant new novelist, and through the eyes of her winning young heroine, this story of seemingly unbearable tragedy is transformed into a suspenseful, touching, even funny novel about family, memory, love, heaven, and living.
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- Hardcover 328 Pages
- Edition: 1st
- ISBN-10: 0316666343
- ISBN-13: 9780316666343
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Pub date: Jun 01, 2002
- Dimensions: 21 cm x 14 cm x 3 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
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I liked Susie's perspective on death. She seemed to have a sense of humor about the whole situation. The thing that kept me turning the page--finding out if her family finds out who murdered her. We actually did this one for the high school book club I mediate in March 2005
Hard to put down, but not for the squeamish!
One of the best books I've ever read. It's definitely my favorite.
The Lovely Bones really touched my heart and soul. I might have even shed a tear with this book. Great read!
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Written in a different style, the dead victim is actually speaking... Ingenious, but left me somewhat uninterested