NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When you lose your way in life the Elsewhere Express just might
find you. Step on board the train that may take you to your life’s purpose in this wistful
Ghibli-esque fantasy from the bestselling author of Water Moon . This deluxe first edition
hardcover includes: • Intricately designed sprayed edges • Interactive endpapers with a
scene you can color in • A full-color illustrated book case beneath the jacket “A
delicately layered dream of a book that glimmers with the promise of hope after grief The
Elsewhere Express will carry you to the stars.”—Molly O’Neill author of Greenteeth You can’t
buy a ticket for the Elsewhere Express. Appearing only to those whose lives are adrift it’s a
magical train seeming to carry very rare and special cargo: a sense of purpose peace and
belonging. Raya is one of those lost souls. She had dreamed of being a songwriter but when
her brother died she gave up on her dream and started living his instead. One day on the
subway as her thoughts wander she’s swept off to the Elsewhere Express. There she meets Q an
intriguing artist who like her has lost his place in the world. Together they find a train
full of wonders from a boarding car that’s also a meadow to a dining car where passengers can
picnic on lily pads to a bar where jellyfish and whales swim through pink clouds. Over the
course of their long strange night on the train they also discover that it harbors
secrets—and danger: A mysterious stranger has stowed away and brought with him a dark
malignant magic that threatens to destroy the train. But in investigating the stowaway's
identity Raya also finds herself drawing closer to the ultimate question: What is her life's
true purpose—and is it a destination the Elsewhere Express can take her to? ★ “A stunning
visual fever dream of a story akin to both the game Spiritfarer and Erin Morgenstern’s The
Starless Sea —a character-driven tale wrapped in a sparklingly creative spectacle of a world
that inhabits a Studio Ghibli–like chaos even as it comes with a well-organized passenger
rulebook.”— Booklist (starred review)
