Helpful Score: 2
This novel is a great example of emotional storytelling at its very best. A tender, yet realistic, look at the effects of grief, 'The Lovely Bones' tells the story of a murdered teenage girl as she looks down from her fantastical heaven into the lives of her surviving friends, family, and killer. Susie Salmon, the 14-year-old who is killed, is instantly recognizable as both the girl who lives on your own street and as yourself as a reader - she represents us all, and it's fascinating reading the accounts of her family and friends' grief from her point of view. This debut fiction novel from Alice Sebold is at turns upsetting, funny, suspenseful, and thrilling, but is always focused most securely on the power of love and the lasting power of the human spirit, whether that spirit is on earth or not. This is a wonderful, worthwhile read, and I thought the recent film version was a great adaptation, too!
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