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Cover of “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold · 2002

352 pages

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon is murdered near her home and watches from her own heaven as her family and her killer's neighbours try to carry on. From that distance she follows her parents' grief, her sister growing up and a small town's slow reckoning with what happened.

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Magical Realism, Coming of Age, Melancholic, Missing Person, Ghost Story

Content warnings: sexual violence

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