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The opening chapter of Alice Sebold's 2002 novel, The Lovely Bones , introduces 14-year-old narrator Susie Salmon, who recounts her murder by neighbor George Harvey on December 6, 1973. After being lured into an underground hiding place and killed, Susie enters an "In-Between" heaven from which she observes her family and the immediate aftermath of her death. This first chapter establishes the story's themes of loss, memory, and the afterlife.

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