Libros

For those Spanish speakers out there, this means books in Spanish, but if you know Spanish, you probably already knew that. :)


I have too many favorite books to count. But here's one of my most favorites.

This book is about a 14 year old girl named Susie Salmon. She's your typical high schooler, she just happens to live in what I think may be one of the coolest decades ever, the 1970s. She's your typical high schooler, she has a crush on a fellow schoolmate, an British-born Indian male named Ray Singh. But one day when she takes her normal route through a cornfield to get home, she's approached by her creepy neighbor George Harvey, who lives alone in a green house near the Salmon residence. He builds dollhouses for a living, and unbeknownst to anyone, is also a killer. He takes Susie to this underground shelter he built and that's where he kills her. In the story, it's said he also rapes and murders her. Meanwhile, her family is convinced she's late coming home from school, and when her elbow is found by a neighbor's dog, only then is the family convinced that Susie Salmon is dead. This almost tears the family apart, and the grandma in the family, Grandma Lynn comes to stay. The mother, Abigail, goes to California because she has to get away. And the detective investigating the case, Len Fenerman, starts to fall for the mother Abigail.

Meanwhile, up in the world above, Susie's spirit tries to point here family in the direction of the eerie neighbor in the nearby green house. Up in the in-between, which is what her brother Buckley calls it, she befriends a pretty Asian girl named Holly Golightly, after the Breakfast at Tiffany's character. The story reveals that George Harvey killed her while she was waiting for her father to close up their restaurant. At the time this story was supposed to take place, no one ever heard of missing kids, and even when they did go missing, they all looked the same-white girls with mousy brown hair if not brown hair, mousy hair and white girls.