The lovely bones : a novel
Alice Sebold.
- 1st ed.
- Boston : Little, Brown, c2002.
- 328 p. ; 22 cm.
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Looking down from heaven, 14-year-old Susie Salmon recounts her rape and murder and watches her family as they cope with their grief and "the lovely bones" growing around her absence.