Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin
Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin
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Elsewhere

Author: Gabrielle Zevin

Narrator: Cassandra Morris

Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/11/2005

Synopsis

Welcome to Elsewhere. It is usually warm with a breeze, the sun and the stars shine brightly, and the beaches are marvelous. It’s quiet and peaceful here. And 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.
It’s where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different from it. 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. 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.
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?

About The Author

Gabrielle Zevin is an award-winning screenwriter and author whose novels for young adults include Elsewhere and Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. Of her writing, the New York Times Book Review said: “Zevin’s touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities.” She lives in New York City.Cassandra Morris can be seen and heard on television and radio. She is the voice of Lola on the cartoon series Angelo Rules, was nominated for a 2010 Audie Award for audiobook narration, and has appeared in national commercials. She has done sketch comedy on Late Show with David Letterman and HBO, and studies improv at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kim on September 14, 2009

You know what sucks? When you get 53 (YES, FIFTY THREE) pages into a book and realize that you've read it before. That blows. You know what doesn't suck? You really like said book. I mean, it's been a good 8 months, and I was still hazy about the plot throughout the whole book, but it's SUCH a good sto......more

Goodreads review by Rick on November 08, 2013

Fascinating, a well-imagined, well-written YA novel. A fifteen-year-old girl dies and finds herself in Elsewhere, where the deceased age backwards until they become babies and return to the Earth for their next lives. It's a quick read, but wow -- it made me appreciate my life, my family, and love.......more

Goodreads review by Baba on December 28, 2023

Liz finds herself in white pyjamas on a boat? The last thing she vaguely remembers was that she was meant to meet her friend, go shopping, have a meal maybe? A truly wonderful young adult read taking a look at life after death in a style as ground-breaking as that used in the TV show 'The Good Place'......more

Goodreads review by emma on July 23, 2022

the book that started my lifelong love of Beautifully Written And Unique Young Adult Magical Realism. the best super niche subgenre. part of a series i'm doing in which i review books i read a long time ago......more

Goodreads review by Grace A. on November 03, 2024

I loved it from the first page till the end. The story idea itself was captivating; living life backwards. Liz died at the young age of 16 and found herself in a place called “elsewhere”, where you don’t grow old but younger till you are born again as a baby. She was furious, that she didn’t get to......more

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