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Book Description:
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 didn't 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 grief--her father embarks on a search for the killer, her sister undertakes a feat of amazing daring, her little brother builds a fort in her honor--and 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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7 member(s) found this review helpful.
i have never had such a physical reaction to a book! i had to put the book down after the first chapters. actually felt phsyically ill. but once i was able to pick it back up it was a very unique and touching story. just not for the faint of heart
Sharon D. from DILLSBURG, PA wrote on 7/14/2007...
6 member(s) found this review helpful.
Mesmerizing I could not put this book down. It takes a tradedy and makes into a personal quest of change. A beautiful book.
Lorrie V. from WALDORF, MD wrote on 7/30/2007...
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is one of the best books that I've read in a very long time. It makes you think about the loved ones that you've lost and the little "chill" that you feel so often. I recommend this book to anyone who has lost someone
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is one of my all-time favorite books. I was really moved by this story told by the victim of a rape and murder. It's very well written.
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5 member(s) found this review helpful.
"The Lovely Bones" is a beautiful story. Hard to read, heart-wrenching in parts, but well worth it. The emotions it subjects you to are honest and true, and that is a rare thing. I highly recommend it
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
One of the best books I have ever read. A true picture of human relationships and the meaning of love and commitment. I have this in hard back. I read it every year and cry.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is a very unusual story of a girl who was murdered, from her point of view. She is in "her heaven", looking down on her family, friends, and even her murderer - watching how each of them deals with her death, and seeing how it affects each person in a very different and special way. It keeps your attention, keeps you wondering how things will or won't resolve themselves in the end. Very good book.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
A young victim of murder comments on the lives she left behind on earth from her perch in heaven. Terrifying, sad and uplifting at the same time.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
I cried, I cried, I cried some more!
The novel is about a young teenage girl who is raped and murdered by her neighbor. She spends the story watching her family from heaven as she narrates, and wishing that she could help them as they all move through separate periods of grief. I know, sounds depressing and awful, right? It's not! It's poetic and beautifully descriptive, and you get sucked right into the story. I would go so far as to say that it's an important book about grieving, but even so, it is a worthwhile read. Wonderful story. I won't be posting my copy, as I can't part with it.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
I just finished reading Sebold's first novel, "Lucky", and must admit that she has become one of my favorite authors after having read only two books. She writes with such truth and emotion in "The Lovely Bones" in was hard not to become emotionally connected to the story. Sebold is a great memoir writer (Lucky) as is she a story teller (The Lovely Bones). The Lovely Bones is an interesting story and Sebold has told it with great detail and care, its a story I will never forget and a book I will share and re-read time and time again.
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This was an incredible story. At first the subject matters appears very depressing, and then the story turns into something else. I couldn't put it down. It moved me deeply.
Lisa S. from CHUGIAK, AK wrote on 10/16/2008...Good read overall
Heather S. (I really enjoyed this book. It was a great story! I recommend it. Lots of book clubs have read this book.....this book was a mix of emotions, but overall I think it is a keeper for me.
How can you say a book about child abuse and murder is good? Well just read this one. Susie Salmon is already dead when we meet her. She watches from above, watching her family deal with, and come to grips with, their grief. She watches as they attempt to track down her murderer. And while doing this she also comes to grips with her own idea of "heaven".
This book was recommended to me by a 14 year old girl - the same age Susie is when she leaves us. She raved about it.
Hannah J. (I personally didn't like this. it was too depressing. but I hear that people who like depressing stuff liked this book. It's about a girl who is murdered and she's watching the world from "heaven"....well there, I murdered the description now..I didn't even finish it.
Heather S. from EAST BERLIN, PA wrote on 5/5/2008...Haunting and beautiful. I think this may be a new classic.
Jessie W. (Wow This book was really interesting and sad although it wavered for me towards the end(I'm not going to give away details). Great read.
Rhonda G. (wonderful... it brought smiles as well as a few tears...
Christi F. from MURRIETA, CA wrote on 2/21/2008...A haunting book narrated by a dead teenager watching over her family after her violent and untimely death. When you read it, you can feel her family's sorrow and the narrators lonliness and urge to hang on to the last of her life. It was heart-wrenching and I had to set it down a few times. A must read!