Alice Sebold is the best-selling author of The Lovely Bones. Her first published book, Lucky, is a memoir of her rape as an 18-year-old college freshman. In The Lovely Bones, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is raped and killed by a neighbor at the beginning of the book, and Susie narrates the story of her own death. Sebold’s new novel, The Almost Moon, opens with: “When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily.”