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~ Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel - 2002, Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction- 2003, Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction - 2003, Puddly Award for Fiction - 2003, British Book Award for Best Read of the Year - 2004, Gateway Readers Award - 2005, and more.
"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, and her grief-stricken family unraveling . . .
Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds in transforming a harrowing story of unbearable horror into a suspenseful and touching story about family, hope, memory, love, joy, and living.