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 continues to watch over her family as Buckley enters kindergarten. He is different and separate from the rest of his fellow students because of Susie’s murder. He becomes attached to his teacher because Abigail becomes preoccupied with her feelings for Len.

Jack teaches Lindsey to shave her legs because Abigail is too distracted. He talks to Lindsey about his suspicions about Harvey.

Grandma Lynn talks to Abigail about her marriage. She tells Abigail her father had an affair and asks Abigail to stop seeing Len. She denies being involved with anyone. She asks to use the family cabin so that she can have time to think.

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