
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
2002

Jesmyn Ward · 2017
304 pages
Thirteen-year-old Jojo rides in the back of a truck as his mother drives across Mississippi to collect his white father from prison. The journey stirs up family history and two restless ghosts, drawing Jojo toward a harder understanding of his mother and his own name.
Magical Realism, Coming of Age, Melancholic, Ghost Story, Outcast Hero, Southern Gothic
Content warnings: sexual violence