![]() ![]() ![]() In Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2007), she used a combination of a coin flip and retrograde amnesia (that old soap opera chestnut) to imagine what a second chance at high school might look like, in all its complex angst. In Elsewhere (2005), she imagined an afterlife where you live your years in reverse, from the age of your death all the way back to infancy, at which point you’re returned to the “real” world to try your hand at the whole life thing all over again. Fikry and Young Jane Young, she was taking some of the most interesting swings in the late-aughts Young Adult scene. Before Gabrielle Zevin captured the hearts (and plaudits) of the adult contemporary market with The Storied Life of A. ![]()
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