Liz is deeply bitter that she’ll never have to graduate from high school or live on her own or fall in love or have children. This is deeply worrisome to Betty, of course, but she tries to give Liz some space. With the allowance her grandmother gives her, she spends all her time at the observation decks, watching her family and friends on earth. She explains the rules of Elsewhere to Liz and urges her to begin looking for a avocation (like a career, but something people do because they love it, rather than for money).īut Liz is not interested in an avocation. Her grandmother, Betty, whom she has never met (her grandmother died of breast cancer shortly before Liz was born) meets Liz at the dock and takes her home to live with her. When they are seven days old, they go back in the river and are reborn on earth again as a new person to start the cycle all over again. The boat is taking her to Elsewhere, a place much like Earth where people begin growing younger, starting at the age they died and going all the way until they become babies. As she meets others on the boat (her roommate, with a gunshot wound in her head, and a popular musician with tell-tale drug veins), she slowly starts to understand that she is dead. Liz, a fifteen-year-old girl, is hit by a car and wakes up on a cruise ship. Yesterday, while I was home sick, I read the whole thing in a few hours.
If you are a fan of children’s and young adult literature (and you should be), you will definitely want to check out Jen Robinson’s completely fabulous blog – it’s jammed with all the information you could ever want about what young adult books to read.Įlsewhere was one of the books in her “Children’s/YA Books that Adults Will Enjoy” list.
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