The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones
By Alice Sebold
Little, Brown, 2002. 328 pgs. Fiction

Looking down from heaven, 14-year-old Susie Salmon recounts her rape and murder and watches her family as they cope with their grief and "the lovely bones" growing around her absence.

This novel is both captivating and gut wrenching. I listened to the book on CD and I often didn’t want to get out of my car when I had reached my destination, because I was so involved in the book. It is not squeaky clean, however it is thought provoking and well written.

AMM