![]() In the USA, the book was nominated for a 2006 Quill award, won the Borders Original Voices Award, and was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Book Club. Booklist magazine gave the book a 'Starred Review' and called it "a work of powerful beauty". ![]() called it "witty and wise" and praised the book for its humour. Literary significance and reception Įlizabeth Spires gave the book a positive review for The New York Times, commending Zevin for her "fresh and arresting" premise, likening it to Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time and Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting. The novel ends with Liz being sent down the river and being reborn into her new life on Earth. Owen is only 2 when Liz is released, and throughout her journey to Earth, she thinks of Elsewhere. At her release ceremony, she is reunited with her roommate from the ship. Liz continues to age backward and works until age of 6. This time Liz accepts her life in Elsewhere. Liz, meanwhile, is trying to get back to Earth by 'early release', but is stopped again by Owen. Owen realizes that he has developed feelings for Liz. However, after a while, Emily decides to 'break up' with Owen, claiming that since she is in her 30s now and Owen is young, the feeling is very awkward. Emily is surprised to see Owen, and accepts Owen's request for their relationship to continue. Owen, Liz, and her grandmother meet Emily on her day of arrival at the ship. As expected, Emily arrives at Elsewhere a few days later. Liz later learns that Owen was married to a woman named Emily on Earth, and when checking the list of new passengers, she finds Emily's name on it. Owen contacts Liz's brother for her, taking a dive to The Well. She discovers that she can actually talk to animals. Liz picks animals, who, like humans, age backward in Elsewhere. Liz returns to her grandmother and is forced to get an 'advocate,' meet with an adviser, and get something similar to a job to take up her time and hopefully relieve her mind of her tragic depression. She is able to reach out to her brother but is caught by Owen, whom she met on the island. The second attempt, however, is successful. ![]() She gets caught by her grandmother right before she enters the water. Liz's first attempt to reach Earth is unsuccessful. While at the OD, she learns of a place named 'The Well' that is rumored to be a place where someone who is in Elsewhere can make contact with someone on Earth. Liz can not get over the fact that she is dead, and spends every day at the OD. Liz watches her own funeral from the 'Observation Deck', or OD in short, and learns that though she is able to see Earth, she is not allowed to make contact with anyone there. Liz meets her grandmother, who is very young by now, and takes care of Liz. In Elsewhere, everyone ages backwards until they reach 7 days old and then are sent back to Earth as a baby to be reborn. The ship arrives to an island called 'Elsewhere'. She meets her idol, who turns out to be dead, like her. When she wakes up, she finds herself in the cabin of a ship named the SS Nile. There, living in the greatest American castle of the gilded age, they are swiftly pulled into a web of lies, deceit, and mur- der that threatens the bond between them.Ī World Elsewhere is a beautiful, compelling novel that offers us new understanding of the meaning of love and loyalty, friendship and family.Elsewhere is a 2005 young adult, speculative novel by Gabrielle Zevin.įifteen-year-old Liz is hit and killed by a taxi. But when poverty overwhelms them, they make the long journey to North Carolina to seek help from Landish's one-time friend. Out- cast, fighting off destitution, he raises Deacon alone with no knowledge or tools other than trust, humour and compassion. John's where, in an odd twist of fate, he adopts an infant boy. But at Princeton, Landish is be- friended, surprisingly, by "Van" Vanderluyden, son of the wealthiest man in America, and caught up in a life he had never imagined.Įxpelled in disgrace, he returns to St. Quick-witted, broader than most doorways, he is the only son of a notorious sealer who expects Landish to continue his legacy. Young Landish Druken is a formidable figure as he sets off from Newfoundland for the famed American university. John's, Princeton University, and North Carolina at the close of the nineteenth century. This sweeping tale immerses us in the life of St. Selected by Mail on Sunday as one of four books of the week.Ī World Elsewhere has all the hallmarks of Wayne John- ston's most beloved, entertaining novels: humour and emotion in fine balance, larger than life characters, dreams of ambition that threaten to overpower their makers, the rich evocation of place and history-and here an unexpected, unforgettable relationship be- tween a father and his adopted child that forms the beating heart of the story. Long-listed for the 2013 Dublin Impac Award.
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