By Alice Sebold
Read: January 2010
Rating: Lovely
The sort of book that stays with you for a long time.
Susie is fourteen when she is lured off by a neighbor, raped, and murdered. She watches from her heaven as her family struggles to cope with the aftermath. Her father is obsessed with finding her murderer. Her mother shuts everyone out. Her younger sister feels she must stand in for two daughters, and their brother is too young to understand. They break.
Even when they start to fix the damage, they’re still wounded. One wonders if it will ever really heal.
And Susie, our impotent narrator, can get anything she wants in her heaven… except her desire to grow up.
Deeply moving, with sweet moments, sad moments, and moments that make your heart race.
I shouldn’t have put it off. Go read it.
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