This is a little girl who tells the world with childlike eyes. On the dead child.
It is in his Paradise, and "up there", she sees everything, she told us everything and tries to understand.
With murder, the whole family that explodes, that tears, which is found in pieces, like the body of the little Susie. It interferes with the privacy of a full family drama.
It is believed to have read the worst: the murder. But the worst part is after the absence, lack, abandonment. Susie will follow the eyes, "up there", his family, his relatives, until they get better. Until each member of his tribe heal a little, regroup and advance. And it takes time ...
This book is upsetting. Touching and intelligent, he takes us in joy into despair with subtlety and intensity. Writing Alice Sebold is delicate and hard at once. She knows the right words, and above all, adapting to the situation it describes. The characters are staged, played very intensely. The author does never "too much" or "too little".
I felt as caught by history, by the style and Susie ...
If I had one word to describe this book, it would be "intense" ...
