The Lovely Bones: Deluxe Edition
by Alice Sebold
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Author: Alice SeboldEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-17
ISBN: 0316001821
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Summary: 5 Stars
Please don't let the subject matter shy you away from this book! As I was reading it I would try to talk about it to people - and either they had read it and thought it was fantastic or... they said they didn't want to read about a 14 year old girl being raped and murdered.
The Lovely Bones is so much more about Suzie Salmon's murder - it is a story about how the dead struggle with just as many uncertainties as the living. Suzie wants to help her family find the killer, Suzie wants her family to see her so they know she is allright -- Just like Suzie's family wants to find the killer and they want her to know that they are allright.
Alice Sebold presents parallels to the reader that, if they are like me, hadn't really thought about before. Most of us believe that the human spirit transcends death beyond earth and goes somewhere and lives on - but what do they experience? Might it be more difficult for them then us on earth who still have friends and family that we can turn for support while the dead struggle to give us some kind of sign, some kind or message or image? And might the dead cherish those breakthroughs that we on earth consider coincidences or imagination?
But with all of that said what Alice Sebold is really trying to tell us is that everything in our world (living or dead) is about letting go and moving on. Sebold herself is rape survivor and while she wrote a different book than Lovely Bones about it -- I cannot help but see what are probably similarities bewtween how the characters in Lovely Bones learn to live and how she herself may have.
It is odd that one event, one minute or one hour can change our lives forever - but what Sebold is trying to tell us is that our lives are constantly changing and our struggles to hold onto our comfort can ultimately be our demise - we need to move forward with change (as difficult and painful as it may sometimes be) and not hold on. Everything is part of our lives - both the good and the bad and each shapes us into who we are.
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