The Lovely Bones

The story is narrated by Susie Salmon, a fourteen-year-old girl who is murdered in the first chapter and spends the rest of the novel in "the In-Between." From her personal heaven, she watches her family unravel as they search for her killer, the "possessive" and unassuming neighbor, Mr. Harvey. It is a profound study of grief, the "ghosts" we leave behind, and the "witchy" way the dead stay connected to the living through memory and longing.