The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold • 2002
Devastation Rating
grief loss family literary fiction
Our Take
A murdered girl watches her family fall apart from above, and Sebold makes the watching tender and terrible. The grief disperses across an entire community, and the book is less about the crime than the long, slow aftermath of being left behind. Heaven here feels like the saddest place imaginable.
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