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Reader reviewed by Adriana M.

I read this via an audio CD version. The narrator was great; she really captured the voice and feeling of the main character. The story centers around almost-fifteen year old Liz. It starts out with her death after she is hit by a taxi cab while riding her bike to the mall to meet her best friend for some shopping. Liz ends up in Elsewhere, which is basically a version of heaven, but everyone starts to age backwards until they become babies and are sent back to earth to live out a new life. At first she is heartbroken and obsessed with returning to her former life, but eventually she comes to accept her destiny and along the way she meets her maternal grandmother whom she hadn't met before, and several other characters that help enrich her new "life" after death in Elsewhere. It is a tender, heart-wrenching tale, that has some laugh out loud moments, and it made me want to believe in such a place as Elswhere.