From the New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied. It’s an ambitious premise that works thanks to Zevin’s diligent world-building and her characterization of the contemplative Liz as she grapples with huge questions about humanity, purpose and love. Buy a cheap copy of Elsewhere book by Gabrielle Zevin. Zevins style of writing is so pleasing to the mind, and the words sweep you by. She meets some witty and wonderful people and animals alike, and gets used to the idea of aging backwards (which is what happens in Elsewhere). Elizabeth must come to terms that she will never be able to do the things she has been waiting for, as she died at the young age of 15. But as Liz slowly learns to let go, she realizes she can make her own life in Elsewhere. As Zevin reveals the rules of this world, she simultaneously underlines the pain of sudden loss and trauma. Elsewhere is where all the dead people end up and where the people age backwards until they are seven days old and are shipped back to Earth to start a new life.

But the moments when Liz considers her life and those she cared for, particularly the ones still alive on earth, remind readers of the emotional gravity of the protagonist’s plight. Though rooted in death, Gabrielle Zevin’s 2005 novel is full of light, and more focused on the inner-workings of Elsewhere than on the tragedies that brought the characters there. Its where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. The details of this afterlife are fascinating and rich, from the sleek cruise ship that drops Liz off in her new reality to the people who populate it, including the grandmother she never met. From the author of the Birthright series comes Gabrielle Zevins Elsewhere, a moving, often funny young adult novel about grief, death, and loss that will. Stop by Marilyn Monroes psychiatric practice. There, Liz learns she will age in reverse until she becomes an infant and is catapulted back to earth to be reborn. She then finds herself on a strange boat with a one-way ticket to Elsewhere where she will. After 15-year-old Liz Hall is killed in a hit and run, she enters a strange and mysterious pseudo-extension of her world called Elsewhere. Liz is your typical teenage girl until she is killed in a car accident.

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