The Lovely Bones Study Guide

The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Lovely Bones is a novel which tells the story of Susie Salmon, a fourteen-year-old girl murdered in the early 1970s. After her death, Susie watches her loved ones cope with their loss from Heaven, witnessing the detectives try and fail to discover her murderer, her parents marriage fall apart, and her siblings and classmates grow up and move on. Though Susie will never be able to rejoin the living, watching over them enables her, and those she left behind, to eventually find peace.

Susie also watched Ruth, the last person she touched as her soul was leaving. Ruth is a studious, unpopular girl who begins writing poetry and smoking pot after her vision of Susie in the cornfield.

Susie breaks through by accident on December 23, 1973. Her father is cleaning his den and remembering building ships in a bottle with Susie. He smashes all of the bottles. He goes into Susie’s untouched bedroom and cries on her bed. Buckley comes into the room and crawls in bed with his father.

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