15-year-old Liz is learning to cope with disappointment. She's never going to have a boyfriend, go to the prom, or learn to drive. Not in this lifetime, anyway. Because Liz is in Elsewhere, the place she went after the bike accident that killed her, where she'll age backward until she's an infant sent back down to earth. For now, she has to find a job and adjust her outlook, because the afterlife can be pretty nice--if she lets it. 
 Picture The Lovely Bones without the suck, and you have something like this--a sweet coming-of-age story about a girl coming to terms with what happened to her, her efforts to hold onto the life she had, and everyone else's efforts to engage her in the life she has now.