![]() ![]() this is when the eyes started to tear and the lips started to tremble: it probably isn't clumsy, but it distracted me from the narrative and once I noticed that distraction it was hard to avoid. My one peeve is the clumsy use of present tense structure. Gabrielle Zevin does a wonderful job with this plot, the characters you meet are well developed and the story made me start crying on public transportation. So, you hardly have time to define yourself and by the time you're 21, you're really nine. you're just starting to feel out who you are and then you die and everything goes in reverse. Now, don't you think that that is a total rip off? I mean, okay. in Elsewhere you age backwards until you're a baby again and then you're returned to Earth. Pete's doorstep, a Quentin Tarantino filmfest.whatever. I think Elsewhere could be whatever your spiritual affiliation wants it to be. Nile (cute, huh?) and it takes her a bit but she finds out she's died and then ends up in Elsewhere. 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 story that I didn't mind kinda knowing the plot. When you get 53 (YES, FIFTY THREE) pages into a book and realize that you've read it before. NOTE: Apologies, but Gabrielle doesn't reply to messages on Goodreads. Zevin is a graduate of Harvard University. She has occasionally written criticism for the New York Times Book Review and NPR’s All Things Considered, and she began her writing career, at age fourteen, as a music critic for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. She is the screenwriter of Conversations with Other Women (Helena Bonham Carter) for which she received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best First Screenplay. Young Jane Young won the Southern Book Prize and was one of the Washington Post’s Fifty Notable Works of Fiction. It is now a feature film with a screenplay by Zevin. To date, the book has sold over five-million copies worldwide. Fikry was honored with the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award for Fiction, the Japan Booksellers’ Prize, and was long listed for the International Dublin Literary Award, among other honors. Fikry spent many months on the New York Times Best Seller List, reached #1 on the National Indie Best Seller List, was a USA Today Best Seller, and has been a best seller all around the world. Maureen Corrigan of NPR’s Fresh Air called it, “a big beautifully written novel…that succeeds in being both serious art and immersive entertainment.” Following a twenty-five-bidder auction, the feature film rights to Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow were acquired by Temple Hill and Paramount Studios. Her tenth novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was published by Knopf in July of 2022 and was an instant New York Times Best Seller, a Sunday Times Best Seller, a USA Today Best Seller, a #1 National Indie Best Seller, and a selection of the Tonight Show’s Fallon Book Club. GABRIELLE ZEVIN is a New York Times best-selling novelist whose books have been translated into forty languages. 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?Įlsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. ![]() 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. ![]() She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. ![]() It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe's psychiatric practice.Įlsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere's museums. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. Is it possible to grow up while getting younger? From the author of the Birthright series comes Gabrielle Zevin's Elsewhere, a moving, often funny young adult novel about grief, death, and loss that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned. ![]()
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