These past 2 weeks my book club has been reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. This story follows a young girl that has been murdered by a neighbor but her body was never recovered. Now, i know what you are thinking but its really not a sad book per say... more a book of hope. It deals with the grief process in almost every conceivable way and i think what makes it such a good book, is that you can identify and empathize with at least one character and their feelings of loss. And Susie's description of heaven makes your heart fill for this little girl; the fact that she has to be able to understand certain things for them to be in her heaven shows just how young and naive she was, never really getting to experience life.
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