Susie Salmon, Jack Salmon, Lindsey Salmon

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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.

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1920 to 1929 The Jazz Age, 1940 to 1949 War and It's Aftermath, 1960 to 1969 Post-Modern, 1980 to 1989 Bonfire of the Vanities, 1990 to 1999 End of a Century -- End of a Literary Era