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Immortalists

by Chloe Benjamin
Immortalists

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ISBN10: 073521509X
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What if you knew the day of your death? Would it change your life? Wouldn't it change your life? The four Gold siblings visit a fortune teller as young children to learn the dates of their deaths, and it changes everything. The loss of innocent bliss — the unknowing — is gone, and Benjamin does a wonderful job of revealing how that informs their lives. At 28, Benjamin's writing is somehow deeply poignant and heartbreaking; it is heavy with maturity and the burdens of life, but her storytelling is breezy — a fascinating and satisfying mix that renders this book a must read. Recommended By Dianah H., Powells.com

One by one, four siblings enter a strange woman’s apartment and learn when they will die. The premise for Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists is a curious one, and the way that prophetic encounter shapes each of the siblings’ lives makes for a captivating read — one that wrestles with big unwieldy unknowns like fate, mortality, and magic, without ever losing sight of the charming and flawed family around which it revolves. I loved it. Recommended By Tove H., Powells.com

The lives of four wildly different siblings are threaded into the major events and ideological crises of the latter half of the 20th century in Chloe Benjamin's engaging second novel. Delving into topics as disparate as magic, the 1980s gay scene in San Francisco, longevity research, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Immortalists spreads itself a little too thin, but is consistently entertaining, absorbing, and illuminating. Recommended By Rhianna W., Powells.com

New York, 1969: Four siblings visit a psychic and learn the day they will die. They keep the dates secret from each other, but the psychic's prophecy affects each of them in very different ways. Brimming with insight and love, The Immortalists is sure to mesmerize.  Recommended By Mary Jo S., Powells.com

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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:
The Washington Post, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Marie Claire, New York Public Library, LibraryReads, The Skimm, Lit Hub, Lit Reactor

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A captivating family saga."--The New York Times Book Review

"This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt."--People Magazine (Book of the Week)

If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?

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. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak out to hear their fortunes.

The prophecies inform their next five decades. 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 struggles to maintain 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.

Both a dazzling family love story and a sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.


About the Author

Chloe Benjamin is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Immortalists. Her first novel, The Anatomy of Dreams, received the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award and was longlisted for the 2014 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is a graduate of Vassar College and the MFA in fiction at the University of Wisconsin. She lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Jeffrey Bluhm , February 13, 2020 (view all comments by Jeffrey Bluhm)
This novel is essentially four novellas linked by the shared history of four siblings. At the outset of the story they set out together to find a fortune teller who, once found, tells each of them separately the supposed day they will die. Each story then looks at how the siblings individually live their lives informed by that knowledge. There is a supernatural element, which is explored only in cursory fashion, and that's fine, as it's part of the mystery of the story. It's well written, with complex characters and a nicely paced plot, and it's interesting, and a little philosophical, to see the various ways in which one could use that information in making life choices.

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Publication date:
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Chloe Benjamin

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