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On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. Alice Sebold's... read more
“... the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.”Susie Salmon
“I don't mean la-la angel crap, but I do think there's a heaven.”Ruthie Connors
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