How is the title The Lovely Bones significant to the meaning of this book?

In the
novel , the title has various implications as the reader explores the
story. At first sight, the title suggests bones as a literal part of a skeleton. Before even
reading the book, the title entices the reader to want to understand why, and how, the bones are
lovely.

As it quickly becomes clear that Susie has died, the reader
interprets the bones to belong to Susie. The description of the bones as "lovely"
could refer to the fact that Susie was young and presumably innocent, and young women are often
described as lovely. While the bones begin to lead the authorities toward her killer, they are
also lovely in the way that they begin to solve her crime.

Later in the book,
Susie suggests that the bones are pieces of the puzzle that eventually piece together to tell
the story of her life and death.

The events my death
brought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in
the future.