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| Original Title: | Elsewhere |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Elizabeth Marie Hall, Thandiwe Washington, Betty Bloom, Curtis Jest, Aldous Ghent, Olivia Bloom Hall, Lucy, Alvy Hall, Coco, Captain Welles, Florence, Doris, Myrna, Mrs. Early, Reginald Christopher Doral Monmount Harris the Third, Owen Welles, Emily Reilly Welles, Josh, Shelly, Dr. Frederick, Phyllis, Zooey Ann Brandon, Yetta Brown, Rowena Ghent, Sarah Miles, Esther, Arthur Hall, Edward, Dr. Fujiyama, Arnold, Amadou Bonamy, Josey Wu, Sadie, Jen, Paco, Pete, Beneatha, Allie Reilly, Joe, Owen, Dolly, Paul Scott Spencer |
| Literary Awards: | Georgia Peach Book Award Nominee for Honor book (2006), Borders Original Voices Award for YA or Independent Reader (2005), Sakura Medal for High School Book (2007), California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Young Adult (2008), Lincoln Award Nominee (2011) Bronzener Lufti (2006), Ulmer Unke (2005) |
Gabrielle Zevin
Paperback | Pages: 277 pages Rating: 3.91 | 48115 Users | 5152 Reviews
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Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere's museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe's psychiatric practice.Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driver's license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. 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. And it is not going well. 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?
This moving, often funny book about grief, death, and loss will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.
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| Title | : | Elsewhere |
| Author | : | Gabrielle Zevin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 277 pages |
| Published | : | May 15th 2007 by Square Fish (first published September 9th 2005) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fantasy. Fiction. Romance |
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Ratings: 3.91 From 48115 Users | 5152 ReviewsComment On Regarding Books Elsewhere
1000/5 STARSI always get so surprised when I see the low ratings of Elsewhere on Goodreads, because this one of my favorite books of ALL TIME. The synopsis on both Goodreads AND the back of the book itself just doesn't do it justice. I would very much recommend this to anyone, and suggest you give it a chance!!!!What I liked: I've read it more times than I can count, and each time I get something new. It's so moving and bittersweet and wonderful - I sob through the whole book each time I reread.Fascinating, a well-imagined, well-written YA novel. A fifteen-year-old girl dies and finds herself in Elsewhere, where the deceased age backwards until they become babies and return to the Earth for their next lives. It's a quick read, but wow -- it made me appreciate my life, my family, and love. The potentially heavy subject matter is counterbalanced with some great humor. Highly recommended.
Liz is more than confused when she wakes up one morning to find herself on a cruise ship with a girl shes never met before in the top bunk. 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.The boat eventually lands in Elsewhere, where dead people get a day younger every day until they are taken down the river back to Earth to be reborn. In Elsewhere, Liz meets up with the grandmother
What is the story? Elsewhere is an idea spun into a book and then left floundering as the author seeks to fill pages. There is no story here - no cohesive plot that moves the thing forward. The main character, Lizzy, dies at fifteen and is transported to Elsewhere, a land where all people who die go. In Elsewhere you live just like on Earth, only you age backward. Cool concept and idea and there are so many avenues the author could have taken this! Instead she enumerates on her world a little
This book was like Audrey Rose + The Lovely Bones, and was incredibly well-written and vivid. Liz is a likeable character and I really love how the author gives us perspectives from everyone who knew her, from the family dog to her grief-stricken brother.
A re-read for me, just as good as the countless times before. Will always be on of my faves.
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