based on my experience with susie, i can say without the shadow of a doubt that she is one

The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life. The events my death brought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it.

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. The novel's title is taken from a quotation at the story's conclusion, when Susie ponders her friends' and family's newfound strength after her death:

The novel was also later adapted as a play of the same name, which premiered in England in 2018. A film adaptation, directed by Peter Jackson, who personally purchased the rights, was released in 2009. The novel received critical praise and became an instant bestseller. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death. The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold.

Based on my experience with susie, i can say without the shadow of a doubt that she is one