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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
This suburban tragedy reaches its climax in the first chapter, but it's not all downhill from there. A young teen is brutally attacked by a neighbor, and for the rest of the novel, she looks down (from somewhere) on her family as they cope with the loss, and on that neighbor as he seeks to cover his tracks. It's suspenseful but credible: You could see this happening anywhere.
I was at a loss as to what to make of a late-breaking encounter between the murdered girl, Susie, and her friend Ray, but the rest of it holds up.
Though more so in her memoir Lucky, Sebold no doubt drew on her own experience as a rape victim in college to write this first novel. The book has a certain cadence to it that keeps you engrossed. You simply want to know how it ends.
The last page had me sitting in silence for a few minutes after finishing it. Quite the closing lines.
I was at a loss as to what to make of a late-breaking encounter between the murdered girl, Susie, and her friend Ray, but the rest of it holds up.
Though more so in her memoir Lucky, Sebold no doubt drew on her own experience as a rape victim in college to write this first novel. The book has a certain cadence to it that keeps you engrossed. You simply want to know how it ends.
The last page had me sitting in silence for a few minutes after finishing it. Quite the closing lines.