Any connections between The Lovely Bones and any other books, film or news items? Any connections between The Lovely Bones and any other books, film or...

I think
that when reading , the first connection I made was with Laurie Halse
Anderson's Speak. It is a story about a young girl who was raped at a party
and called the cops who came and broke the party up. None of her peers knew why she called the
cops, so they all started to hate her. It's all about how she dealt with the pressure, the hate,
and her own demons after the rape. I think it would be interesting to compare it to Salmon's
experience of dealing with her rape and murder in the afterlife as well as her family's
experience in dealing with the loss of their daughter. There's a lot to be said for the
emotional growth process of coping and learning how to live with yourself after such a traumatic
ordeal - and how the victim is never the only one affected.