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.
Susie enters Ruth’s body and Ruth floats out of her own body. Susie opens her eyes and finds herself in Ray’s arms. She tells Ray to kiss her. Susie tells Ray to drive her to Hal’s bike shop. Susie steps into the shower and asks Ray to join her. He calls her Susie, not Ruth. He realizes she is not Ruth, and Susie tells him she watched both of them for years. They have sex. She tells him to read Ruth’s journals before he leaves the room. Susie calls Buckley, but he cannot hear her. When Ray comes back from the shower. He realizes Susie is gone and Ruth is back.
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