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Holly Down In Heaven Summary: The Journey of a Born-Again Christian and Her Doll Collection



G. Susie is quickly taken to heaven, where she meets Holly, her guide in the afterlife. Heaven can be whatever she wants, and Susie chooses to create her heaven in the image of her hometown high school. However, the only thing Susie truly wants is to be back on Earth, growing up with the people she loves. This is the one thing Susie cannot have in heaven, but there is one way Susie can keep up with her family. From heaven, Susie can look down and watch her family as they struggle with their own feelings about her murder.




Holly Down In Heaven Summary




Holly is Susie's roommate in her first heaven, but we don't get her back-story. Since she's in Susie's heaven, and seems to relate to her situation, we assume she had a similar kind of death. Since there aren't a lot of subplots going on in Susie's heaven (the action all being down on Earth) Holly doesn't play a pivotal role in the novel.


Susie is quickly taken to heaven, where she meets Franny, her guide in the afterlife. Heaven can be whatever she wants, and Susie chooses to create her heaven in the image of her hometown high school. However, the only thing Susie truly wants is to be back on Earth, growing up with the people she loves. This is the one thing Susie cannot have in heaven, but there is one way Susie can keep up with her family. From heaven, Susie can look down and watch her family as they struggle with their own feelings about her murder.


Susie is now in wide heaven, which is a place of comfort. It is from this heaven Susie sees Harvey again. He is having coffee in a diner when he sees a teenage girl who sat in front of him on the bus. He follows her and tries to engage her in a conversation. Susie sees an icicle above him and she causes the icicle to fall, hitting him and knocking him down a ravine. His body is found weeks later.


An accident, knocked over by a car in front of the house, have seen it myself, killed at once, immediately. Already in hell [pointing up mistakenly] or in heaven [pointing down mistakenly]. Sorry for the grave diggers. Hard work. It is frost.


Surrounded by twenty-four elders who time and time again fall down to worship Christ, it seems as though all of heaven engages in unceasing praise. As for the twenty-four elders, scholars have not come to a conclusion on their identity. Some have said twelve are the sons of Jacob and twelve faithful disciples, but no matter the personhood (or beinghood) of the twenty-four elders, we can conclude that all creatures in heaven revert praise back to God. 2ff7e9595c


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