"The Lovely Bones" clarification essay.

Before reading this book I thought it was going to be horrible. The plot sounds some what gruesome, a young girl narrator her rape and death at the hands of a sexual predator, which is also one of her neighbors. From heaven she watches her family fall apart after her death, and then eventually come back together. Alice Sebold has a wonderful way of writing her book to the point where you have to know what's happening next. Yet I didn't find the book to be overly depressing and I thought Sebold chose her words beautifully. Sebold spoke very vaguely about what heaven was like. Apparently fro…