The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold The second sentence of this book sets the tone. It says, "I was fourteen when I was my murdered on December 6, 1973". Told by the dead Suzie Salmon, this is the story of how her small town and her family have to cope with her murder. When she dies, her soul brushes a girl with whom she had been friends, Ruth. Ruth and Suzie's former boyfriend, Ray, become close in their grief. Suzie's mother leaves her family, unable to cope, remembering what she had wanted to become, before she married.
Suzie tells this story from heaven, where whatever she really wants, she gets. The only exception to this rule is that she does not get to go back to her life. In her heaven, she goes to high school, but only has to go to her favorite class. If you were to go to heaven now, and heaven worked like this, what would your heaven be like?
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