The title of my book is The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold. The main character in the novel is Suzie. Susie is just your average teenager who lived in the 70's. Suzie, like any teenager, faces many challenges. Surprisingly these challenges are not dealt with on Earth, but in heaven, where we first meet her. She tells the reader the story of how she was raped and murdered by her neighbor. She didn't even get the experience of high school before she died.
Suzie also shows us what heaven is like. She explains that heaven is different for everyone. In her heaven she has a high school, exactly like the high school in her town. She also goes to school, but her text books consist of Cosmo and Vogue. She also is able to watch watch what is happening on earth from up above. She watches how frightened and hopeless her parents are after they discover that she is missing. In heaven, she also finds many challenges, she doesn't know what to do or how to spend her time. This is when she meets her guidance counselor. She helps her "fit in" in heaven and tells her how things work. She tells her that anything that her heart desires will automatically appear, all she has to do is think it.
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