Title: unique fiction
Product review: Normally I am not interested in reading fiction. However, Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" had me hooked from the very first chapter. The author's perspective is unique and while the subject is death, the book is upbeat and enchanting.Sebold has an uncanny ability to jump from gender to gender, age to age, and paint a picture of incredible detail that makes the reader believe the herone, 14-year-old deceased Susie Salmon, is indeed looking down from her prison/heaven and experiencing the pain, joy, and emotions each of her loved ones have endured since her murder.The description of homicide detective Len Fenerman's feelings about "wounded women" on Page 272 is both compact and compassionate. "The wife in the bait-'n'-tackle shop had no bruises on her fact but cowered like a dog and spoke in apologetic whispers."It is that kind of tightness of thought that could place Sebold in the same category as John Steinbeck and Pearl Buck as she continues to hone her craft.
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