This book about the afterlife is really about a whole lot more. The author addresses other very deep, heavy topics besides what happens to us after we die like: love, drugs, mental illness, animal rights, friendship, marriage, right and wrong, and good and evil. But, she does it in a light-hearted and meaningful way with beauty and humor. The main character, Liz, is easy to relate to and pretty much has issues like your average teenage girl. Here’s a quote from my favorite part of the book- it’s spoken by a woman explaining “Elsewhere” to Liz who just arrived by boat after getting hit by a taxicab on her bicycle. She is watching her family on earth from an “observation deck.”
“How can these binoculars see all the way back to earth?”
“Maybe that’s the thing. Maybe Earth’s not so far at all. I think of it like a tree, because every tree is really two trees. There’s the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there’s the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing up to the sky, and Elsewhere is the roots, growing down in opposing and perfect symmetry. The branches don’t think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don’t think much about the branches, but all the time, they’re connected by the trunk...”
This book will definitely give you a lot to talk about.
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