Summary of The Lovely Bones The novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is about the destruction and rebuilding of a family after a significant death. The narrator of the story, "Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie" is a fourteen year old girl "with mousy brown hair" who was murdered on December 6th 1973. Susie is telling the story of her family's life from heaven. On a cold and dark December day Susie was walking …showed first 75 words of 741 total…

…showed last 75 words of 741 total…kind teenager. Abigail comes back home and tries to fix her marriage with Jack and rebuild ties with her children. As the story ends, Susie starts accepting who she has become and watches her family less and less. She still checks in with them from time to time and they still think about her occasionally. In the end, Susie finally realizes that the dead never really leave if they are still loved back on earth.