If you read Seventeen or YM, then you probably heard of the novel, The Lovely Bones. When it first came out, magazines and talk shows raved about it, and when the school library got it, I grabbed at the chance to read it.
The novel is narrated by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Susie recounts the event of her murder and rape by a neighboring man. At the time of her death, the 1970s, people did not believe that those sort of things happened. In the weeks following her death, Susie watches as people she knew or met, deal with her death.
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