Elsewhere

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Elsewhere shares some concepts with The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, but is not very similar otherwise. it's almost like fantasy or mythology, but still reads like realistic fiction. Like, 'cause you don't have hair." Thandi points to Liz's head which is completely bald except for the earliest sprouts of light blond growth. Elsewhere,' by Gabrielle Zevin Review". The New York Times. 4 December 2005 . Retrieved 31 May 2013.

Elsewhere - Macmillan

GABRIELLE ZEVINis a New York Timesbest-selling novelist whose books have been translated into thirty-nine languages. Oh, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human's life is a beautiful mess.” I wonder if there's a hat in here somewhere," says Liz. Even in a dream, Liz isn't sure she wants to be the freaky bald girl. She opens the closet and looks under the bed: both are as empty as the bureau.

Liz is 15 and is a hit and run victim. She wakes up on the S.S. Nile (cute, huh?) and it takes her a bit but she finds out she's died and then ends up in Elsewhere. I think Elsewhere could be whatever your spiritual affiliation wants it to be. Limbo, Heaven, squatting at St. Pete's doorstep, a Quentin Tarantino filmfest....whatever... 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. She wants to fall in love. 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. Gabrielle Zevin has constructed a fascinating ‘what if?’ Great humor and speculation, on pets as well as people.”— Chicago Tribune

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On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen...” Fascinating. Zevin, in her first novel for young people, bends the laws of physics and biology to create an intricately imagined world.”— Publishers Weekly As with A.J. Fikry, Zevin’s characters are believable and relatable, I wanted them to do well. I also loved the fact dogs played such a key role in this book. Not sure if the author is a dog-lover, but I’ll take a dog story any day, I just wish I could speak Canine.Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and arresting it seems to exist in a category all its own. “Elsewhere,” by Gabrielle Zevin, is such a book.Zevin’s touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities, easily moving among humor, wisdom and lyricism… No plot synopsis can convey what a rich, wise spell this book casts.” The New York Times Book Review