A disturbing and thought-provoking mystery novel by Alice Sebold about the death and afterlife of a fourteen year old girl, and how her family conquered an unpleasant circumstance. The opening chapters of the book are devastating, hard- hitting, and might bring the readers into a black mood, especially that the book is told from the perception of the main character. Susie Salmon at the age of 14 years old was murdered on the 6th of December 1973. Wherein it was mentioned in the second line of the book. Her murderer was Mr. Harvey; a man who lives alone from her neighborhood. Susie describes her heaven as a replica of the place she spent on her living days. It begins as her school playground, and little by little it grows to become more.
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She will always be 14, and the agony of her unfulfilled promise mixes her voice as she watches her siblings growing up with the roles she will never experience. Still, Susie's no frail, daintily drawn ghost; like the other characters in the book, she's an astounding, complex individual who was witty and gracious as grief.
The Salmon’s was an adoring and glad family. Susie's killer, Mr. Harvey, who lives alone begrudges family like Susie's. One motivation behind why he did such crime to her. The Lovely Bones is an intimate illustration of a truism, that when a member of the family is murdered or killed, the life of the family is shattered. Susie’s family crumpled into private griefs, which made them drift apart from each other. His father was fixated in solving the crime. Her mother had an affair with the investigator of Susie’s crime before leaving her family. Susie’s sister outperforms her in age and experience, falls in love with her classmate, and treat’s her parents’ with respect. Susie’s brother was still little and young when she died. He grew up in a dark shadow of Susie, which he cannot recognize, but sometimes still thinks that she is around the
She will always be 14, and the agony of her unfulfilled promise mixes her voice as she watches her siblings growing up with the roles she will never experience. Still, Susie's no frail, daintily drawn ghost; like the other characters in the book, she's an astounding, complex individual who was witty and gracious as grief.
The Salmon’s was an adoring and glad family. Susie's killer, Mr. Harvey, who lives alone begrudges family like Susie's. One motivation behind why he did such crime to her. The Lovely Bones is an intimate illustration of a truism, that when a member of the family is murdered or killed, the life of the family is shattered. Susie’s family crumpled into private griefs, which made them drift apart from each other. His father was fixated in solving the crime. Her mother had an affair with the investigator of Susie’s crime before leaving her family. Susie’s sister outperforms her in age and experience, falls in love with her classmate, and treat’s her parents’ with respect. Susie’s brother was still little and young when she died. He grew up in a dark shadow of Susie, which he cannot recognize, but sometimes still thinks that she is around the