The Lovely Bones

Description

“My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.”

So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her — her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Alice Sebold
Published: 07/01/2002
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
ISBN: 9780316666343
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 1.12″ H x 8.52″ L x 5.89″ W

Award: 2003 Book Sense Book of the Year Award Winner – Adult Fiction
Award: 2002 Bram Stoker Awards Finalist – Novel
Award: 2002 Bram Stoker Awards Winner – First Novel
Award: 2005 Buckeye Children’s Book Award Second Place – Teen
Award: 2004 Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner – Grades 9-12
Award: Tayshas Reading Commended – Young Adult
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award Winner – Young Adult
Award: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award Winner – Grades 9-12
Award: 2004 Colorado Blue Spruce Award Nominee – Young Adult

About the Author
Alice Sebold is the bestselling author of The Lovely Bones, The Almost Moon, and Lucky a memoir. She lives in California with her husband, the novelist Glen David Gold.