The international bestseller novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson. My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. In heaven, Susie Salmon can have anything she wishes for – except for what she desires most, which is to be back with the people she loved on Earth. After her murder, Susie watches as her happy family is torn apart by grief in the suburbs; how her friends grow up, fall in love, and do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But as Susie will come to realize, life itself is not entirely out of reach even in death. A luminous, astonishing novel about life and death, memory and forgetting, and finding light in the darkest places, Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" instantly became a classic upon its release in 2002. It inspired the film featuring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, and Saoirse Ronan.