Title: Feminist angle needed?
Product review: "Lovely Bones" is a beautifully written take on the murder of a girl and its effect on her family. Sebold also manages to make a surprising literary device work: the narrator is the girl herself, now in heaven. Sebold provides some details about heaven, or kind of a pre-heaven, but is careful not to try too much (cf. to last chapter of Dara Horn's "TheWorld to Come" which I did not like at all).Sebold throws in a feminist angle (Susie's mother, also Ruana). While not done badly, I wonder if it may have been required only because Sebold's literary imagination needed another crutch; to my mind, it muddies the tragedy's after affects.
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