Elsewhere is an intriguing premise. A mysterious town, covered in clouds and unknown to the rest of the world where mothers disappear. It’s an affliction that’s celebrated, ironically, and carries with it ritual and speculation. No one knows which mothers will disappear and why so mothers are watched and both held up to scrutiny and held up to love. Strangers are a curiosity until they begin to question the affliction and then they are run out of town, Vera’s mother disappears and when she becomes a mother she is consumed with wondering when and if she’ll go. So she decides to take things into her own hands. She tries to live Elsewhere until she makes a decision that will change the way she looks at everything and challenge her perception of the place where she grew up. My only frustration with Elsewhere is that I would have liked some explanation for why mothers would prick their husbands with a hairpin during sex to taste their blood. Also why girls were paired and tripled up while young. But these things didn’t distract from my enjoyment of this book