Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Elsewhere


Liz is 15, about to turn 16 pretty soon is psyched because she could get her driver's license. But, one day (three months before her birthday) she was banged and killed in a car crash. She woke up on a ship. She was sharing a room with a girl named Thandi. Thandi seemed to have a bullet hole in the back of her head which was really abnormal to Liz. But, Liz wasn't so normal herself! She was bald. It turned out that she was on the boat to a heaven called Elsewhere. In this special place, "dead" life was different. Instead of ageing you age backwards. Although this is the kind of ageing process that goes on in Elsewhere, it is a lot like earth. Some artists continue their artwork there, Marylin Monroe is a psychiatrist, etc. Plus, Elsewhere has music, books, artworks, etc. This book is filled sorrow and hope that she would get to connect with her family to leave her proper goodbyes. Will she get this chance? or will she never speak to family again?

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