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Susie Harvey's The Lovely Bones
The book starts out on December 6, 1973 when Susie Salmon is raped and murdered in the cornfield by her house by her neighbor George Harvey. The story takes you through her experience in heaven watching her friends and family try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance. It takes you through as her spirit leaves her body, brushing past her friend Ruth; as she sits with her father in his study each evening; and as she watches her friends and family grow over the next eight years. Also as she tries to communicate the events of her murder to those trying to catch her killer. Susie finds peers and even friends while in heaven and discovers that heaven is not the same for everyone. Susie’s heaven grows and changes as she does. Initially, she
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