lovely bones
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The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
Consider this: At age fourteen being raped and murdered, and then having to go to another place, whether it be heaven or wherever your beliefs justify you to be, and having to watch your family have to cope with their loss of their daughter and/or sister, you. How would one react in such a situation? Could one handle watching their families readjust to their new lives, sans you, and with a new bitter and remorseful attitude? In The Lovely Bones written by Alice Sebold, Susie Salmon has to do exactly this. "My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. In newspaper photos of missing girls from the seventies, most looked like me: white girls with mousy brown hair. This was before kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons or in the daily mail. It was still back when people believed things like that didn't happen." (Sebold, page 3)
Understanding the concept of this book is quite simple, yet has an unexpected and intriguing twist...