PEOPLE
Shock Waves
Augus 12, 2002

Seven years before Alice Sebold's much-heralded debut novel The Lovely Bones​ became a movie starring Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Stanley Tucci, I sat down with the author at her Long Beach, CA, home to discuss how she came to tell the disturbingly dark tale. Thankfully, it was a bright and sunny day.