The Lovely Bones is a novel which tells the story of Susie Salmon, a fourteen-year-old girl murdered in the early 1970s. After her death, Susie watches her loved ones cope with their loss from Heaven, witnessing the detectives try and fail to discover her murderer, her parents marriage fall apart, and her siblings and classmates grow up and move on. Though Susie will never be able to rejoin the living, watching over them enables her, and those she left behind, to eventually find peace.
Ray and Ruth have been kissing for some time and Ray is developing feelings for Ruth. Ruth begins to have feelings for Ray as well.
Ray and Ruth go to the cornfield to observe the second anniversary of Susie’s death. Samuel and Hal are there, and someone has left daffodils on the ground. Other neighbors decide to join them. Lindsey tells Abigail something is going on, but Abigail is not interested. She would rather read. Lindsey watches from the window.
Susie watches the makeshift memorial. It appears to her everyone she ever knew was in attendance. The neighbors have heard about Mr. Harvey’s suspected connection to the murder and are gossiping about it. No one calls the Salmon house to tell them what is going on.
Lindsey realizes what is going on. Abigail says she is done with memorial services. She has other ways to honor her daughter’s memory. Lindsey asks what she means, and Abigail says she wants to be more than a mother. Lindsey asks if her mother is planning to leave. Abigail lies and tells her she will never leave, but she has a plan to leave.
Jack tells Lindsey he will go with her to the cornfield. Buckley goes with them, but Abigail stays home, hiding from them until they leave the house. Buckley tells them he sees Susie.
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