Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin- themes??

what are some major themes (other then life and death or afterlife) -something deeper
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin- themes??
- the similarities between backwards aging and regular aging


- second chances i.e. the second chance Liz has with her grandmother, with Owen, with her brother, etc.


- water imagery in Elsewhere


- references to Egypt


- how poetry is used in Elsewhere: refs. to T.S. Eliot, Antique Lands, Virginia Woolf, etc.


- use of different cultural/religious ideas of death