Tolog Review: The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
reviewed by Shanley Galanto

The Lovely Bones is a novel written by Alice Sebold about Suzie Salmon. Suzie is fourteen when she is raped and brutally murdered by her neighbor. Suzie narrates the story from her viewpoint in heaven. She watches her family as the struggle through dealing with her death. She watches her sister, Lindsey, and her brother, Buckley, grow up, something that she had never gotten to do. She watches her friends Ray and Ruth deal with her death, Ray, her almost lover, and Ruth, her almost friend. She grew closer to them in death then she ever did in life. For over 5 years after her death, Suzie is still overly connected to her old life, to earth. She must learn to let go of her past to fully enjoy the wonders of heaven.

In the book The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold writes a beautifully tragic story of what it means to be alive and full of emotions and pain. Alice teaches how one holds on to someone who has left and might never come back. This book shows in a sharply real way, what someone goes through when a family member or friend passes away. This book shows the miraculous wonders of the human resilience to heal even after such a hard loss. This book represents the human emotions in authentic and sincere ways that most other books fall short of. This book, is a genuine and heart-felt book that everyone should have the pleasure of reading.