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When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didn't happen.
Back Bay
April 2004
352 pages
ISBN: 0316168815
EAN: 9780316168816
Trade Size (reprint)
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Contemporary
When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already
in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public
service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when
Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these
things didn't happen. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl,
Susie relates the awful events of her death, and her own
adjustment to the strange new place she finds herself. (It
looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind
of swingset.) With love, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie
watches her family as they cope with their grief--her father
embarks on a search for the killer, her sister undertakes a
feat of amazing daring, her little brother builds a fort in
her honor--and begin the difficult process of healing. In the hands of a brilliant new novelist, and through the
eyes of her winning young heroine, this story of seemingly
unbearable tragedy is transformed into a suspenseful,
touching, even funny novel about family, memory, love,
heaven, and living.
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