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’s grandmother arrives for the memorial service in February, which brings fun and life into the house again. Grandma Lynn helps Lindsey find an outfit from Susie’s closet to wear to the memorial. Grandma Lynn also points out George Harvey at the funeral and tells Lindsey who her father suspectsof killing Susie. She sees him and faints.

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