Sebold, Alice.

The lovely bones : a novel / Alice Sebold. - New York : Little, Brown, 2002. - 328 p. ; 22 cm.

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."
So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her, her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling.

0316666343 (alk. paper) 9780316666343

2001050622


Murder victims' families--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Crimes against--Fiction.


Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.

PS3619.E26 / L68 2002

813/.6