The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2002, Hardcover)

We highly recommend this book because it is unusual storytelling.

If you are twenty-something, with no kids, and you enjoy reading true crime, you will enjoy this novel. We often see this given as a book club recommendation- Please note: This is a very difficult subject for any parent to read, and if you have teenage girls this is going to turn your stomach. If you are a person who cannot stomach reading grisly murder details, this book isn’t for you because the story is contains the graphic scenes of Susie the 14 year old main characters rape and murder.

Susie begins telling her story from heaven and keeps no secrets from her readers. She tells her heartbreaking story and makes her life before her death, the details of her murder, and what happens to her devastated family after her murder unfold before the reader s eyes. The reader floats with the main characters life she left on earth and her new life in her own heaven.

After her murder, she constantly worries about her father, mother, sister, brother, and even her dog from heaven. She worries that her murderer will attack someone else and anxious to help her family and Detective Len discover the person who murdered her.

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