After her tragic death, Susie Salmon watches from her personal heaven as her family struggles to heal and her killer remains at large. Through grief, love, and hope, her voice bridges the world of the living and the afterlife. Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and redemption, capturing the beauty and pain of holding on—and learning to let go.
Date: 2002 (United States)
Length: ~336 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~10.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery
"Alice Sebold has a way of subverting expectations... a stunningly sad novel -and yet it is also... a deeply affecting meditation on the ways in which terrible pain and loss can be redeemed -slowly, grudgingly and in fragments- through love and acceptance" — Michiko Kakutani, influential New York Times literary critic
"The Lovely Bones is a beautiful, sensitive, melancholy novel" — Lev Grossman, Time magazine critic and bestselling author
"A perfect afterlife... at the heart of The Lovely Bones is an unwritten book about loneliness" — Ali Smith, acclaimed Scottish author and critic
"Part detective story, part family drama, part meditation on what lies beyond, The Lovely Bones is a page-turner in the most literary sense" — O, The Oprah Magazine
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