“Add this to Tuck Everlasting when you are looking for a tale to stretch your appreciation of this life and stir your intellect. “Zevin offers a dazzling, original novel about anger and forgiveness, about love and healing, about life and death and the meaning of everything.”- Buffalo News “Powerful and thought provoking in the way that recalls Lois Lowry’s The Giver, this bittersweet tale will move some readers to tears with its devastating beauty and loss.”- Seattle Post-Intelligencer “…this is a book about the fleeting beauty of life, the necessity of love, and the bittersweetness of it all.”- Philadelphia Inquirer “Gabrielle Zevin has constructed a fascinating ‘what if?’ Great humor and speculation, on pets as well as people.”- Chicago Tribune “Zevin’s touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities, easily moving among humor, wisdom and lyricism.No plot synopsis can convey what a rich, wise spell this book casts.” - The New York Times Book Review This moving, often funny book about grief, death, and loss will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward? And now that she’s dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn’t want with a grandmother she has only just met. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe’s psychiatric practice.Įlsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere’s museums. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. One of Time Magazine’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time “Elsewhere,” by Gabrielle Zevin, is such a book. Zevin’s touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities, easily moving among humor, wisdom and lyricism… No plot synopsis can convey what a rich, wise spell this book casts.” The New York Times Book Review “Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and arresting it seems to exist in a category all its own.
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