AliceSebold

'Lovely Bones' Cuts Too Close to the Bone

"The Lovely Bones" is a lovely book. Alice Sebold's 2002 novel, narrated by a murdered 14-year-old named Susie Salmon as she watches over her family from heaven, was praised by critics, discussed by book groups, and sold over a million copies. The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani extolled Sebold's ability "to capture both the ordinary and the extraordinary . . . in lyrical, unsentimental prose" that displayed her "gift for making palpable the dreams, regrets and unstilled hopes of one girl and one family." As inevitably happens with successful books, the elegiac story has been rendered into ...

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