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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... read more

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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... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

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.

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  • “Dying seems to entail a great deal more work than Liz initially thought. In a way, dying isn't that different from school.”
    Liz's thoughts
  • “I think you'll find that dying is just another part of living, Elizabeth. In time you may even come to see your death as a birth. Just think of it as 'Elizabeth Hall: The Sequel.'”
    Aldous, Liz's Acclimation Counselor
  • “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 life is a beautiful mess”
  • “No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.”
  • “The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love”
  • “It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed”
  • “As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.”
  • “A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.”
  • “If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought”
    Liz
  • “I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?”
  • “Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.”
  • “Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead”
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"The ending came quickly, and there wasn't any pain."

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Prologue: In the end

Part I: The Nile
1. At Sea
2. Cutris Jest
3. In Memory of Elizabeth Marie Hall

Part II The Book of the Dead
4. Welcome to Elsewhere
5. A Long Drive Home
6. Walking
7. A Circle and a Line
8. Last Words
9. Sightseeing
10. Lucky Cab
11. The Big Dive
12. Sadie
13. The Well
14. A Piece of String
15. Owen Welles Takes a Drive
16. Thanksgiving
17. A Mystery
18. Liz in Love
19. Arrivals
20. The Sneaker Clause
21. To Earth
22. At the Botom of the Ocean, in the Land Between Elsewhere and Earth
23. Restoration

Part III: Antique Lands
24. Time Passes
25. Two Weddings
26. The Change
27. Amadou
28. Childhood
29. Birth
30. What Liz Thinks

Epilogue: A the Beginning

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  1. Gabrielle Zevin (Author)

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