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An initial idea not very rosy: a teenager is raped and murdered, one does not find his body.
Yet Alice Sebold has made something beautiful. This girl from the height of heaven SON (once up there, we choose the one you want), tells us how will pull his family. The devastated father who locks himself with memories. The disoriented mother. The younger sister, the strongest or the weakest, who will take huge risks to try to find the killer (we also attend his first love). They will learn to live with more or less difficulty. Rather than less.
Nostalgia, yes, the book is well appointed. Also the humor is more amazing. A lot of emotion, but it is never maudlin. It is a book turned to hope, the future. This is an amazing book, despite the trigger drama, he is gay, tender, light, in the sense that it does not weigh on the heart, it makes us smile.
A true happiness.