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Elsewhere
by Gabrielle Zevin
How would you like to live in a place where everyone ages backward? So it is in Elsewhere, the afterlife for Elizabeth Hall, who has died in a collision between her bike and a taxicab. Learning to cope with a life after death is obviously not the easiest or likeliest thing in the world to happen to a fifteen year old, but Elizabeth must deal with this problem. As she does, readers learn the intricacies of Gabrielle Zevin’s vision of the afterlife, and how completing your unfinished business is a possibility, if you’re willing to take a risk.
She views her life through binoculars on Elsewhere’s observation deck, and meets her grandmother, who passed away shortly before she was born, but has aged backward 15 years, and is now merely in her thirties. The people and pets she meets make her life on Elsewhere eventful and full, and combine to provide her with the perfect job to suit her abilities in this new “life” she has been forced to lead.
“Elsewhere” provides readers with an interesting escape and glimpse into a world that many are curious about, but no one understands. What if Elsewhere was truly the afterlife? Read and find out how you would feel about this if you ended up there.
She views her life through binoculars on Elsewhere’s observation deck, and meets her grandmother, who passed away shortly before she was born, but has aged backward 15 years, and is now merely in her thirties. The people and pets she meets make her life on Elsewhere eventful and full, and combine to provide her with the perfect job to suit her abilities in this new “life” she has been forced to lead.
“Elsewhere” provides readers with an interesting escape and glimpse into a world that many are curious about, but no one understands. What if Elsewhere was truly the afterlife? Read and find out how you would feel about this if you ended up there.