You know, like Mammy, An Island Must be Heaven, Mom They're Making Eyes at Me, My Mother's Eyes.

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Surprisingly, the conceit of looking down from heaven works nicely, since Ms Sebold avoids the precious, making Susie's paradise agreeably ordinary, a place where the dead learn to let go of the living while below the living learn to let go of the dead.

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