Death of Susie Salmon:
My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. In newspaper photos of missing girls from the seventies, most looked like me: white girls with mousy brown hair. This was before kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons or in the daily mail. It was still back when people believed things like that didn’t happen.
In my junior high yearbook had a quote from a Spanish poet my sister had turned me on to, Juan Ramon Jimenez. It went like this: " If they give you ruled paper, write the ot