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.

Ruth and Lindsey meet at a camp for gifted students. Samuel is also at the camp, where he and Lindsey spend most of the summer finding places to make out.

The annual competition is changed from building a better mousetrap to how to commit the perfect murder. Lindsey pretends having to plan a murder does not bother her.

Susie believes the perfect weapon to use in a murder is an icicle because the evidence melts away

Lindsey and Samuel have sex.

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