The book "Elsewhere" by Gabrielle Zarvin is a different and intriguing story. The main character, a girl named Elizabeth, who dies in a bike accident and finds herself in a parallel universe where everyone that dies ages backwards until the become babies and then start another life on earth. Elizabeth is completely distraught by the whole thing and misses her whole life. She realizes how perfect it was. Through this the reader can finds that you don't know what you have until its gone.
Liz misses things she had never even cared about before she died. She missed her younger annoying brother, her homework, and even her teachers. But most of all she's misses having obstacles to overcome in life. Everything in elsewhere is perfect so know one ever has to work hard for anything. Even the things that none of us want to do at all.
All in all this book makes you realize that all the things in life that you hate to do make your life interesting. And all the obstacles you have to over come help you learn new things. When we have no problems and everything is perfect then we are almost not even human.
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