Alicia's Reviews > The Lovely Bones

People wonder what heaven would be like and Sebold tells a beautifully painful story of what people in heaven want to know: what is it like after death? The special perspective lends itself to phenomenal out-of-body experiences. LOVE.

Updated in 2024: I fell in love with this one all over again. It was more than Sebold reading this audiobook version. It was more than the general things I remembered about loving the book because as an adult reading it again, now with kids of my own and a marriage, everything ached- in an observant, mundane and magical, realistic way. This is a reread I'm doing having turned 40 and picking 40 seminal books. This one brought me right back but I didn't remember Lindsey as much being an integral element. There are other scenes I remember vividly (to the point that I photocopied pages EONS ago when I first read it). It's mood is exactly the reason I also love The Virgin Suicides. And even in my area and a decade later than Sebold, we had our own Suzie Salmon-- her name was Sara Ann Wood. Won't ever forget that name.