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.

Abigail learns Jack has suffered a heart attack. She flies back home to see him. It is her first trip back in eight years.

Abigail barely recognizes Lindsey when she steps off the plane. She recognizes Buckley right away, who is openly hostile to Abigail. Abigail cries in the car, but Buckley is not affected.

Jack wakes up when Abigail enters the room. He is happy to see her.

Grandma Lynn intercepts a message to Jack from Len saying he will visit soon.

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