A tragic story told by an angel

“My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973 … It was still back when people believed things like that didn’t happen…My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father once talked to him about fertilizer.” Susie tells her sad story, observes her sorrowing family and explores heaven in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.