What themes do "The Lovely Bones" and Sebold's new book "The Almost Moon" have in common? Many have read " the Lovely Bones", but some may have read...

In terms
of plot, both stories deal with murders that have no obvious motive.  However, the narrator of
the new novel is the villian and not the vicitim, as was the case in . 
Helen of Moon is not the rational creature that Susie is, either.  She
shares more in common, as one might suspect, with Susie's killer Mr. Harvey.

This is the first common theme, the humanization of a murderer.  Both novels attempt to explain
the reasoning behind...