Book, January 1st, 2003
"People ask me about heaven a lot," says Alice Sebold, a bit weary of fielding metaphysical questions. When people identity her too closely with Susie Salmon, the protagonist of her phenomenally successful novel, The Lovely Bones, Sebold has to remind them she has no firsthand knowledge of heaven--the place from which Susie, a fourteen-year-old who has been raped and murdered, narrates the book. In a way, Sebold's novel gives voice to a woman whom the author never met but feels intimately connected to: the victim of a rapist who later brutally attacked Sebold. That 1981 attack on Sebold beca...
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