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The Lovely Bones  Cover Image Book Book

The Lovely Bones

Sebold, Alice. (Author).

Summary: My name was Salmon, like the fish, first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.' This is Susie Salmon, speaking to us from heaven. It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets. There are counsellors to help newcomers to adjust, and friends to room with. Everything she wants appears as soon as she thinks of it - except the thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved on earth. From heaven, Susie watches. She sees her happy suburban family implode after her death, as each member tries to come to terms with the terrible loss. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0316168815
  • ISBN: 9780316168816
  • Physical Description: 328 ; cm.
    print
  • Publisher: NY NY : Time Warner Book Group.

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Study Program Information Note:
adult
Subject: Fiction
Murder victims' families -- Fiction
Criminal investigation -- Fiction
Family -- Fiction
Homicide -- Fiction
Murder Investigation -- Fiction
Murder -- Fiction
Serial Killer -- Fiction
Sexual Assault -- Fiction
Parents and Children -- Fiction
Police Investigation -- Fiction
Secrets -- Fiction
Children -- Crimes Against -- Fiction
Teenage girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction

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Summary: "my name was Salmon, like the fish; fish name Susie. I was fourteen when I was mrurdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusti to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expcted.
My name was Salmon, like the fish, first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.' This is Susie Salmon, speaking to us from heaven. It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets. There are counsellors to help newcomers to adjust, and friends to room with. Everything she wants appears as soon as she thinks of it - except the thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved on earth. From heaven, Susie watches. She sees her happy suburban family implode after her death, as each member tries to come to terms with the terrible loss. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet.

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