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.

加•泽文 (Gabrielle Zevin ，1977—)

美国作家、电影剧本编剧。年轻并极富魅力，深爱阅读与创作，为《纽约时报书评》撰稿，现居洛杉矶。

毕业于哈佛大学英美文学系，已经出版了八本小说，作品被翻译成二十多种语言。14岁时，她写了一封关于“枪与玫瑰乐团”的信 函投给当地报社，措辞激烈，意外获得该报的乐评人一职，迈出了成为作家的第一步。28岁时，她出版《时光倒流的女孩》一举成名。一直以来，她对书、书店以及爱书人的未来，充满见解。她的第八本小说《岛上书店》在2014年以史无前例的最高票数，获选美国独立书商选书第一名。

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