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 Susie Salmon, Alice Sebold’s main character in The Lovely Bones is raped and murdered. The young girl is vulnerable, trusting and full of life. Susie meets her doom in a drab, snow-covered stubblefield of last summer’s corn.
Using a brilliant vantagepoint - heaven - Sebold softens the dark, heinous crime of rape and murder as Susie narrates her own story. When tragedy occurs in life, our senses are either dulled by grief or sharpened by discovering the importance of life. We know the perpetrator of the crime and want justice done. However, the solid, silly, noble lives of the people Susie loves become the focal point of the story.
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