![]() Because when this girl named Liz died, she went to Elsewhere, which is like Heaven. ![]() I think that the plot of this story was pretty much realistic. Characters were reasonable – everyday members of the family and community, nothing extraordinary – and well-developed, only as far as was necessary, which I felt was very appropriate for a YA novel.I haven’t sent it on to my sister, but I will do once things are a bit less emotional in the family. Possibly not a revolutionary idea, but certainly an interesting one.It was this same not overly ambitious, rather efficient manner with which Zevin described life, romance and set-backs in Elsewhere, and apart from some people being born with the innate ability to speak canine, with which I struggled, I found this a delightful take on tragedy (our heroine Liz dies aged 15 in a cycling accident). So I sat down to read it.And looked up three hours later, having finished it.A relatively simple structure, based around the idea that Heaven (or “Elsewhere” here – there is no alternative for bad people) is much like Earth, but that people age backwards from death until infancy and are then dispatched back to Earth. When it arrived, I thought I ought to read it first – we have recently had a death in the family and I didn’t want to post off a tragedy without knowing what I was responsible for. I mooched Elsewhere for my sister it had been recommended somewhere for young adults, and I am trying to interest her in something other than Twilight and its offshoots. 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?Įlsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. 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. Is it possible to grow up while getting younger? From the author of the Birthright series comes Gabrielle Zevin's Elsewhere, a moving, often funny young adult novel about grief, death, and loss that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned. ![]()
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