The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold, 2002
A fourteen-year-old narrates from the afterlife as her family, and the world, keep living around her absence.
Alice Sebold
Published in 2002, Sebold's novel became a bestseller and was adapted into a 2009 film directed by Peter Jackson.
Feels like grief, death and family.
What a child sees in a snow globe, and what her father answers.
Inside the snow globe on my father’s desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don’t worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He’s trapped in a perfect world. Books by Alice Sebold
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