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by Alice Sebold
About 91 pages (27,195 words)
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Chapter 4 Summary

In her heaven, Susie recounts how in the moments and hours after he killed her, Mr. Harvey toted her body parts in bags past her house while her parents frantically made phone calls. Susie reveals how she is not the first girl her neighbor has murdered. Mr. Harvey is calm as he scrubs himself down after the killing.

Mr. Harvey brings Susie's remains, which are now packed into a safe, to a local sinkhole. He pays the property owner twenty dollars and sinks the safe with Susie's body inside.

As he leaves the sinkhole, Mr. Harvey fingers a silver charm bracelet that belonged to Susie. He drives away into the night with the bracelet in his pocket. He finds a construction site, and at a man-made pond he throws Susie's engraved Pennsylvania keystone charm away.

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