When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven.
It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing se.
In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and her own adjustment to the strange new place she finds herself.
This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didn\'t happen.
When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven