SexViolHist Bib: Cases: Fictional Cases: Rape of Susie Salmon

»The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from a personal heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death. The novel received critical praise and became an instant bestseller. (...)
On December 6, 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon takes a shortcut home from school through a cornfield in Norristown, Pennsylvania. George Harvey, her 36-year-old neighbor, a bachelor who builds doll houses for a living, persuades her to look at an underground kid's hideout he constructed in the field. After she goes into the hideout, he rapes and murders her. He puts her remains in a safe that he dumps in a sinkhole, and throws her charm bracelet into a pond. Susie's spirit flees toward her personal Heaven; it rushes past her classmate, social outcast Ruth Connors, who sees Susie's ghostly spirit.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 21^st Century

II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History

III. Topical Index: Types: Victims: Statutory Rape | Victims: Physical Consequences: Homicide

B i b l i o g r a p h y

Representations: Literary Texts: Alice Sebold