Huffington Post’s “60 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018” InStyle’s “10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018” Martha Stewart Living, “On Our Bookshelf” Southern Living’s “Books Coming Out This Winter That We Can’t Wait to Read” Harper's Bazaar’s “10 New Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2018” Good Morning America’s “Best Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer”Įlle’s “19 of the Best Books to Read This Winter” Newsweek’s “50 Coolest Books to Read This Summer” It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11 and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.Ī sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. The prophecies inform their next five decades.

The Gold children-four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness-sneak out to hear their fortunes. It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? “This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt.”- People Magazine (Book of the Week) “A captivating family saga.”- The New York Times Book Review Jessamyn Duckwall, Waucoma Bookstore, Hood River, ORĪ BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post The Immortalists is at once a page-turning, character-driven narrative and a fascinating rumination on fate versus free will.” “How would you live your life if you knew what day you’d die? This compelling novel explores this question through the interweaving lives of four siblings who, as children, are told their death dates by a fortune-teller.

Erika VanDam, RoscoeBooks, Chicago, IL Summer 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List

I LOVED The Immortalists, and if there's any justice in bookselling, this book will find the massive audience it so deserves.” Apart from raising the obvious question (would you want to know the date of your death?), Benjamin brilliantly explores how family members can be both close to and distant from one another, and ponders the point at which our actions cease to matter and fate steps in. We follow the Gold siblings both separately and together over the next four decades and see how these revelations affect their choices, their behavior, and their relationships with one another. “In 1969, four siblings visit a fortune teller, who tells each child the date of their death.

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