the immortalists

In 1969, four siblings visit a fortune teller, who tells each child the date of their death.

In The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin, 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.

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.

I loved The Immortalists, and if there's any justice in bookselling, this book will find the massive audience it so deserves.

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