Elsewhere

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


In a Q&A at the end of the book, Gabrielle Zevin cheekily admits that she doesn't really think about an afterlife. She thinks that would be shocking since this book is about the afterlife. But really, I don't think the readers will be shocked that she didn't think about what she was writing.

An afterlife where you grow younger instead of older, and you may never get reunited with the people you love, or if you do they may be 12 and you may be 45 is creepy. And even if you do meet up with the one you love, you grow young together--(still creepy). That's the main premise behind elsewhere, although even the details don't really make sense. There are creepy love triangles, and the dead grieve over the living more than the living grieve over the dead. In fact, no one seems particuarly happy or well-adjusted in this book. If that's Zevin's idea of heaven, no wonder she doesn't want to think about it. I don't want to either.



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