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ALICE SEBOLD
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Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Review by Hasmita Chander The most intriguing thing about this book is that it is narrated by a dead person. What's even more intriguing is that this doesn't make the story weird--not a bit. The protagonist is Susie Salmon, a fourteen-year-old girl who was brutally murdered by a neighbour (who is weird). But the story is not just about bringing the murderer to justice, it's about how Susie's family comes to terms with her death, how it affects them, changes them. We get to see what "heaven" is like--Sebold creates a very logical, plausible heaven where Susie's life does move on--she is always fourteen, but that doesn't mean she does not learn or grow as a person. She makes friends, she discovers things about her people on Earth that she could never have known if she were alive. The characters and environment are so real that you feel like walking over to this neighbour's house for coffee or apple pie (Mrs Singh's house) or that one's to have a look at his horrible basement. This is a daring, well-written novel that deserves to become a classic and be read by generations.
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