The lovely bones : a novel /
Alice Sebold.
- New York : Back Bay Books, 2007, c2002.
- 328, 13, 12 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes a "Reading Group Guide" (13 p.) Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, c2002. With new reading group guide.
This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family's grief, a hopeful and joyful story.