Literary · Mystery
The Lovely Bones
Bestseller: about 10 million copies (estimate)Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon narrates from her own heaven after she was murdered in 1973, watching her family fall apart and heal as the police search for the man who killed her.
- First published
- 2002
- Pace
- medium
- Length
- medium
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want a tender, strange novel about grief that looks at a family's recovery.
Skip this if the rape and murder of a child, even handled with restraint, is too much.
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