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Sebold's first book was a memoir of rape, her second, "The Lovely Bones," a prodigiously successful novel about a murdered child, and her new novel kicks off in a similar vein: "When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily." Helen Knightly, the depressed and confused narrator, is a divorced woman with two grown children. She has spent the past twenty years feeding her agoraphobic mother with "long pink spoons pilfered from BaskinRobbins" and ...