The lovely bones : a novel /
Alice Sebold.
- 1st Back Bay trade pbk. ed.
- New York : Back Bay Books, 2004, c2002.
- 328, 13, 12 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 2002. Date of publication may differ between copies. Includes Reader's Group Guide and excerpt from the author's novel The Almost Moon.
The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.