This thriller centers on a Seattle police officer named Livia, whose parents sold her and her sister, Nason, to a gang of Thai traffickers as children. According to our reviewer, “what might play as a sentimental melodrama in the hands of a lesser writer becomes in this volume a keenly observed portrait of familial love and how it endures and changes over time.” Susie is able to stay connected to her family by watching them from heaven, but witnessing their lives - especially the rites of passage of her teenage sister, which she’ll never experience - makes her yearn for her life on Earth. This book is told from the perspective of Susie Salmon from the afterlife after she is raped and murdered.
