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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. The Lovely Bones Episode 1
