"...a risky novel that gracefully succeeds..."
--- USA Today, 6/27/02
"...a personal and artistic triumph..."
--- Time, 7/1/02
"...a high wire act...and Sebold maintains almost perfect balance...takes the stuff of...tragedy...and turns it into literature..."
--- The New York Times Book Review, 7/14/02
"...a stunning achievement..."
--- The New Yorker, 7/15/02
"...boldly steps into...unimaginable territory...a strange and beautiful amalgam of novelistic styles...painfully fine and accomplished..."
--- Los Angeles Times Book Review, 7/7/02
"...Sebold has worked wonders...marvelous pacing...A-"
--- Entertainment Weekly, 7/12/02
"...a savagely beautiful story...the Salmon family's tragedy is...palpable and multifaceted...a strange and compelling novel..."
--- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, 7/7/02
"If you only have time to read one book this summer, it's The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold."
--- Anna Quindlen, Today Show
"...a keenly observed portrait of familial love...a deeply affecting meditation on the ways in which terrible pain...can be redeemed..."
--- New York Times, 6/18/02
"...delicately insightful...sustains a mood that lingers after you've put it down..."
--- Chicago Tribune, 6/30/02