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 reads parts of Ruth’s journals as she sleeps. He realizes Ruth can see the dead and documents in her journal their locations and causes of death.
Jack is released from the hospital. Abigail returns home with Jack. Abigail goes to Susie’s room, which is now being used by Grandma Lynn. She tells Susie she loves her, which shocks Susie.
Ray and his mother bring a pie to the Salmons. Ray tells Samuel that Ruth’s father owns the house he wants to buy. He restores old houses.
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