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Elsewhere

Elsewhere

by Gabrielle Zevin
Hardback
Publication Date: 09/09/2005

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Is it possible to grow up while getting younger? 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. "Elsewhere" is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
ISBN:
9780374320911
9780374320911
Category:
Personal & social issues: death & bereavement (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
09-09-2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
275
Dimensions (mm):
211x150x25mm
Weight:
0.44kg
Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin was raised by parents who took her to the library like it was church. She suspects that is why she became a writer.

Her career began at age fourteen when an angry letter to her local newspaper about a Guns 'n' Roses concert resulted in a job as a music critic.

Over eight novels for adults and young people, she has written about female soldiers in Iraq, mafia princesses in retro-future New York City, teenage girls in the afterlife, talking dogs, amnesiacs, and the difficulties of loving one person over many years.

Her last novel, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, was a New York Times bestseller.

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