Susie describes her heaven as filled with people who are all experiencing their own version of heaven. Residents of heaven live in their distinct world. Susie's roommate is Holly, a Vietnamese girl Susie meets on her third day there.
Susie's heaven has school without teachers, and she has only art and music class to attend with no rude boys and only magazines to read. Susie and Holly find that their heavens have everything they loved from Earth, including ice cream shops with their favorite flavors and a newspaper with their pictures in it.
Susie wants to be part of the lives of those she left behind, but Franny admonishes that there are limits to this. Susie watches as Detective Len Fenerman tells her father that a dog has found Susie's elbow. Susie's father and mother.....
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