Bookclub-in-a-box Discusses the Novel the Lovely Bones

by Marilyn Herbert

While many novels explore the human experience in all its complexity, all Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion guides help to interpret the authors' approach to that human experience. The Bookclub-in-a-Box guide to Alice Sebold's novel, The Lovely Bones is no exception. In Sebold's Story, fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon is murdered. Many readers might stop reading right there, but that would mean missing Sebold's unique perspective on life and death, and not getting to know her unusual narrator, Susie, who tells the story from heaven.

71 pages, Paperback

First published July 12, 2005

About the author

As an educator, school librarian, writer, book-talk presenter and facilitator, Marilyn loves to read and talk about books. Her enthusiasm for reading and sharing led her to unite her two favorite things: people and pages. In turn, this led to the creation of Bookclub-in-a-Box, the ultimate discussion companion for contemporary works of literary fiction. Marilyn is always looking for a great debate about books and welcomes all feedback.

Reviews

[Clara]

A wonderful suspenseful page turner told from the perspective of a fourteen year old ghost who had been murdered on earth and watches from her heaven as her family goes through the grieving process and looks for her murderer. Loved it.