Title: Unique point of view
Product review: I admit I approached The Lovely Bones with skepticism, because I generally avoid even so called "literary" books involving serial killers, a subject American authors exploit shamelessly. I was pleased to find the treatment of that part of the novel restrained, and overall I felt the novel was indeed lovely--well written and interesting, despite some unnecessary tangents. Unique point of view, even if it made for a somewhat detached story.For another unique and enlightening story about grief, read Fran Dorf's SAVING ELIJAH. In a novel some might mistake for a ghost story, the "ghost" helps the reader see and feel the mother's despair from the inside, in all its ugliness and terror, which makes for a moving and authentic, if perhaps moreintense, experience. Take it from someone who's experienced such a loss.Grief is anything but detached. It's intense.
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