Elsewhere: A Novel

Gabrielle Zevin

Sep 2005 · Sold by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

About this ebook

A TIME MAGAZINE BEST YA BOOK OF ALL TIME

Beloved by generations of readers, Elsewhere is an original, moving novel about love, loss, and the meaning of it all from the New York Times–bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry.

Is it possible to grow up while getting younger?

Welcome to Elsewhere. The beaches are marvelous. It’s quiet and peaceful. You can’t get sick, and you’ll never turn even a day older . . .

This 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 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. Now that she’s dead, though, Liz is forced to live a life she doesn’t want with a grandmother she has never met before. And it isn’t 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?

A book that transcends genre and category, Elsewhere is a modern YA classic.

Ratings and reviews

It is a good book to be honest but the last 30 pages made me very confused I did not know if that was a continuation of the book I would love a sequel where Lizzie meets Owen again and fall I love and they remember their time together, and Liz and Owen Gets Married but she and Owen have a kids in the future and those kids would be Betty and Curtis also Liz should be born to her little brother who is going to be her dad or be born to her best friend before she dies and either her brother or her best friend has a friend or neighbor and then Liz and Owen will be back together and they will always remember all of their history. That is what I think would be a very good story and please like this maybe one day the author will consider my suggestion because that idea came from a 13 year old! P. S. I know my grammar is bad. Sorry P. S. again sorry: BUY THIS BOOK, IT IS VERY GOOD. I am not someone who reads a lot and I never finished a book so quick in my life I stayed up all night long till I finished every last word in this book and I think this is the first book that I did not read in school (the whole class reads out loud) and actually finished took me about 7 hours and it was worth those 7 hours because I am a Gamer (I am a girl by the way) and I actually stopped my video game and picked up this book it caught my attention instantly. I gave 4 stars because I am sad it ended. This would be a great television show not a movie because it would be way to fast and I don't want it to end.

Yes, the book starts out oddly. Yes, it's kind of slow and melodramatic. This book is one of my all-time favorites though. It gives the reader the best insight into human psychology and society, and shows all of us the better part of our imaginations.

I have been reading this book at school. I only get to read it for 20 minutes at a time, 2 or 3 times a week. It's the best book I have ever read, whoever wrote this should be down in the history books for being the greates author ever. It's amazing. It's realistic (it sounds possible), it's gripping, and it teaches you a lesson- make the most of life, because it won't go on forever. I love this book! :) 10/10 **********

About the author

Gabrielle Zevin is the New York Times and internationally best-selling author of several critically acclaimed novels, including The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, which is now a motion picture, and Young Jane Young. Her most recent novel is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, one of the best books of the year, according to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Entertainment Weekly, the Atlantic, Oprah Daily, Slate, NPR, the Hollywood Reporter, and many other outlets. Her novels have been translated into forty languages. She lives in Los Angeles.