Jack passes by HarveyвЂ™s house, and notices him building a kind of tent in the yard. Harvey feels a familiar itch to build something. Harvey keeps one charm from the bracelet-a Pennsylvania keystone, engaged with SusieвЂ™s initials-as a kind of trophy. He stops off on the way home at the site of an under-construction industrial park and throws the bracelet into the bottom of a man-made pond. Harvey walks back to his car, he feels SusieвЂ™s charm bracelet in his jacket pocket. Harvey dumps a safe containing SusieвЂ™ remains into the sinkhole. On the outskirts of Norristown there is a sinkhole, which a family owns and operates by charging people to dump their old appliances and furniture. Susie reveals herself to him in the shards of glass, and she and Jack both realize that the line between the living and the dead is not so stark or final after all.

Propelled by her longing for her family, Susie is finally able to вЂњbreak throughвЂќ and reveal herself to her father one morning as he smashes his collection of ships-in-bottles-a craft he and Susie used to do together. As RuthвЂ™s preoccupation with Susie deepens, so too does SusieвЂ™s own preoccupation with her memories of her brief time on Earth. Ruth, attempting to reckon with the experience of what has happened to her, becomes obsessed with finding out as much as she can about Susie.

When Susie left Earth, she passed by a classmate of hers, a loner named Ruth Connors. Susie explains that when souls leave Earth, they often pass by a still-living person. Back on earth, SusieвЂ™s parents, Jack and Abigail, her younger sister, Lindsey, and her four-year-old brother Buckley struggle as Detective Len Fenerman brings them the news that the investigation of SusieвЂ™s disappearance has turned into a murder investigation. What Susie really wants is to return to Earth, but as she is unable to, she decides to spend her time in heaven watching those she has left behind in order to see whole lives from beginning to end, and understand the secrets of adulthood, love, and life. Franny, their intake counselor, helps the girls adjust to life in heaven, and explains the rules to them-to get what they want, all they have to do is desire it, and understand the reason why. The dead interact in the spaces where their heavens overlap-Susie soon makes friend with a girl named Holly, who, like Susie, has newly arrived. Susie arrives in heaven and finds that everyoneвЂ™s heaven is different. After the act is done, Harvey instructs her to tell him that she loves him. Susie begs Harvey to stop, but he rapes her. He begins kissing her, and Susie thinks of her first real kiss-it happened just the other week, with a classmate named Ray Singh. She and Harvey begin to struggle physically, but Harvey bests her, and throws Susie down on the ground. Harvey remarks on how beautiful Susie is, and urges her to take off her clothes. Harvey opens up a trapdoor in the ground and invites Susie to climb down. Her neighbor George Harvey is waiting in the field, and he invites her to come take a look at something he has built. After school on December 6th, 1973, Susie walks home from school, cutting through the cornfield which separates her junior high from her neighborhood.

Susie Salmon is fourteen years old when she is murdered.

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