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 plans to visit home when she learns the sink hole will be filled. She has been writing and tending bar in New York. She is still close to Ray. Susie watches Ruth, who has become a celebrity in Susie’s heaven because Ruth sees images of people’s deaths.
Buckley brings up a box of Susie’s clothes from the basement, intending to use them to stake tomatoes. Buckley and Jack fight about Jack’s inability to let go of Susie. Jack has a heart attack.
Susie stays by her father’s hospital bed. She also checks on Buckley, who asks Susie to save Jack.
Susie returns to heaven, where she is visited by her grandfather. She dances with him for hours until he leaves.
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