The Lovely Bones

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Call Number: Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Sebold, Alice
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Compact discs.
Read by the author.
The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.

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Surprisingly problematic submitted by kylepk on April 20, 2023, 11:58am I'm going to include a trigger warning. And no, it is not for the rape and murder that sets off the book. I'm not sure you could go into this without being aware of that. And after that first chapter it gets into a study of the grieving process of the people left behind. All well and good.

No, my warning is about the act of non-consensual sex practiced _from beyond the grave_ at the end of the book. That is ... quite an accomplishment, for both the character and author. It destroyed any good will that this reader had for the characters involved. I guess that this may all be part of the author working through the trauma of her own past, but I did not enjoy being a part of it.

Underwhelming writing submitted by Noight on June 30, 2023, 11:10pm Sebold’s writing REALLY underwhelmed me. Not to mention the whole book. I found myself not expecting much more towards the end. The writing is pretty strange too at times. Also the ending I felt was unnecessary and unfinished. Could have ended off better at ch. 23.