A book review/summary on "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold.

        If you read Seventeen or YM, then you probably heard of the novel, The Lovely Bones. When it first came out, magazines and talk shows raved about it, and when the school library got it, I grabbed at the chance to read it.         The novel is narrated by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Susie recounts the event of her murder and rape by a neighboring man. At the time of her death, …

…one genre can do it justice with just one word. The Lovely Bones is a novel for all. There is a bit of mystery, a dash of suspense, and it is lightly seasoned with a splash of romance. Yet throughout the novel's engrossing pages echoes Susie's last words: "The dead truly talk to us, that in the air between the living, spirits bob and weave and laugh with us. They are the oxygen we breathe."