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Alice Sebold is the bestselling author of the novels Lucky (1999), The Lovely Bones (2002), and The Almost Moon (2007). Sebold won the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction in 2003 for The Lovely Bones and the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel in 2002. Sebold is an alumna of the Ragdale Foundation.
She was previously married to Glen David Gold. She lives in San Francisco.
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The Oddity of Suburbia
My family was watching television when a couple - the mother and father to a
woman who lived one street over with her family - were hit by a car and landed
on our front lawn. The man who hit them, leapt out of his car and shouted to two
boys playing basketball in the driveway of the house across from ours. He
yelled: "These people need an ambulance." He then proceeded to jump
back in his car and drive three houses down, where he calmly parked in his own
driveway and went inside his house. The daughter of the couple who had been hit
had been walking behind her parents and, having lapped them once, now came up
upon the scene. We heard the screaming and ran out. Both of her parents were
killed. One died on our lawn, the other died later, in a hospital. And the man
who struck them? He was both one of our neighbors and, by profession, a
paramedic.
As I grew up and left home, living in Manhattan and just outside L.A., I
began to realize more and more that within the suburban world of my upbringing
there were as many strange stories as there were in the more romanticized parts
of the world. Ultimately, the East Village had nothing on Nowhere U.S.A. and I
returned, after several failed attempts at ...
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