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Elsewhere
by Gabrielle Zevin
Elsewhere is one of Gabrielle Zevin’s young adult books and it explores what happens when your life on earth ends.
Liz is 15 years old and living her best life, until she wakes up on a boat called the S.S. Nile. She thinks it’s a dream until she realizes it isn’t. She is dead and the boat takes her to Elsewhere, where you go to live your life in reverse until you reach being a newborn and you go back to earth to start again. Liz is disappointed to say the least when she realizes she will never get her license, watch her brother grow, or learn Shakespeare after Macbeth. What she discovers, though, is there is more to life than moving forward. Living a life in reverse teaches just as much and is just as fulfilling.
This is the fourth book I’ve read by Gabrielle Zevin and I love how each one is completely different from the rest. While Elsewhere is just as compelling and moving as A.J. Fikry, Tomorrow x3, and Young Jane Young, the story is completely different. As with the other 3, I fell in love with all of the characters and I laughed and cried while watching Liz learn about this new life she’s living.
Liz is 15 years old and living her best life, until she wakes up on a boat called the S.S. Nile. She thinks it’s a dream until she realizes it isn’t. She is dead and the boat takes her to Elsewhere, where you go to live your life in reverse until you reach being a newborn and you go back to earth to start again. Liz is disappointed to say the least when she realizes she will never get her license, watch her brother grow, or learn Shakespeare after Macbeth. What she discovers, though, is there is more to life than moving forward. Living a life in reverse teaches just as much and is just as fulfilling.
This is the fourth book I’ve read by Gabrielle Zevin and I love how each one is completely different from the rest. While Elsewhere is just as compelling and moving as A.J. Fikry, Tomorrow x3, and Young Jane Young, the story is completely different. As with the other 3, I fell in love with all of the characters and I laughed and cried while watching Liz learn about this new life she’s living.