THE LOVELY BONES

I am not a kid who can say i love to read books and they generally interest me but once I saw the light blue cover of the Lovely Bones, I instantly knew that I was going to read and love that book. The book in a nutshell deals with a murder victim who is looking down from heaven at her family and what she is missing. The victim's name is Susie Salmon she is a pretty normal pre-teen living in the 1970's. She has a little brother and a little sister and lives with both of her parents. On a normal day she walks home just as always through the cornfield that is the center of all her troubles. As she walks through the field, her neighbor Mr. Harvey who until then was seen as a silent and odd person approaches her. Sadly Susie forgets about stranger danger and talks to him which leads to her untimely death.  After she did not return home her parents find out that she is dead after a couple of days thanks to a forgotten elbow that Harvey seemed to forget about. Susie ends up in heaven and sees the craziness that is happening down on earth with her family and community. Since people do not expect Harvey to do what he did he lays low and watches the madness happen. Years pass and Susie sees her family dismantle quickly with her death. Her mother leaves and her dad gets obsessed with wanting to find his daughters killer. This book is about spiritual and physical growth and death is sad and yet it can make people better. Susie experiences her first time in a friends body with her first love and he knows that it was her. Even though her mother left when the father gets sick she returns after years of post cards to a family that is unrecognizable. Even though Susie can not do anything all she wants is for everything to go back to normal. It is a book that i recommend 

everyone read because it will open up your eyes to death and how it can affect people.