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  • #Choose one you like. I have provided a plot summary and review for each book to help you.
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  • Hmm.. I wonder if this crazy idea will actually work...

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Hidayah's Book Club

14.8.10

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold





Basic plot

It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from heaven as her family and friends go on with their lives, while she herself comes to terms with her own death.

The novel's title stems from a line toward the end of the novel, in which Susie ponders her friends' and family's newfound strength after her death:

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death brought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my life. (source)
 My review (on Visual Bookshelf)
An amazing book. Even more so that such a tragedy can be the premise of such a beautiful story. What could have been a dark and sorrowful account of loss, was instead a gentle and lyrical exploration of how resilient human nature is in the face of adversity. A must read for all book lovers. 4.5/5

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