Elsewhere

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B ook release dates, event news, words of note, and the occasional rumination on the meaning of it all. Liz hall is wanting and yearning to just go home and pretend that it’s jut a dream; that nothing actually happened, but instead of getting her drivers license at sixteen she’s going to get it at a younger age of fifteen, because in Elsewhere time goes backwards. Her parents are inconsolable, her younger brother, Alvy, tells jokes to get through the day, and her dog, Lucy, refuses to accept that Liz isn't coming back. A charming story about growing up, Elsewhere encourages the reader to look toward the future and to expect the unexpected.

Elsewhere (Zevin novel) - Wikipedia

A truly wonderful young adult read taking a look a life after death in the style of 'The Good Place'. Jackson’s debut is well-executed and surprises readers with a connective web of interesting characters and motives. Zevin’s touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities, easily moving among humor, wisdom and lyricism.The sleeping girl, who is near Liz's own age, wears a white nightgown and has long dark hair arranged in a thatch of intricately beaded braids. Zevin, in her first novel for young people, bends the laws of physics and biology to create an intricately imagined world. Her first young adult novel, Elsewhere, was published in 2005, three months after her adult debut, Margarettown. To me, ELSEWHERE is a combination of Mitch Albom's THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN and Alice Sebold's THE LOVELY BONES, two other wonderful books dealing with death and the Afterlife. I let myself go and be immersed in another place apart from any I know and it was a thing of such beauty and calamity that I will never forget the ways in which it moved me.

ELSEWHERE - Bloomsbury Praise for ELSEWHERE - Bloomsbury

However, as Liz comes to terms with her new existence, her moodiness falls away, revealing her generous and joyful nature; she finds meaning in her work counseling newly deceased pets, in her friendships with Thandi and Betty, and eventually in her relationship with Owen.However, the more she watches Amadou, the more Liz comes to see him as a good man who made a mistake; consequently, she gives up her desire for revenge. Thandi points to Liz's head which is completely bald except for the earliest sprouts of light blond growth.

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin | Penguin Random House Audio Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin | Penguin Random House Audio

A woman who died at fifty from breast cancer, Betty is now a woman in her thirties--one of the first surprises Liz is in for is the fact that, on Elsewhere, lives are lived backward from the age of a person's death. Zevin’s creation of a believable, intriguing afterlife and her depiction of Liz’s struggle to adjust to her new situation will captivate teens ready for a thought-provoking read. The book is about coming to terms with your death, about enjoying your life no matter what strange form it is in. But then she starts to remember being hit by a car as she rode her bike to the mall and eventually is brought up to the observation deck to watch her own funeral. However, as Zevin depicts it, this process underscores rather than resolves the anxieties many people feel in regard to mortality.But, as it is--if this is what I have to look forward to after death, I need to find the Fountain of Youth and quickly! I mean, it's been a good 8 months, and I was still hazy about the plot throughout the whole book, but it's SUCH a good story that I didn't mind kinda knowing the plot. Her most recent novel is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, which was featured on over thirty “Best Books of the Year” lists, including the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Slate, and the Atlantic. Of her writing, the New York Times Book Review said: “Zevin’s touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities.