The Immortalists
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Publisher Description
'For someone who loves stories about brothers and sisters, as I do, The Immortalists is about as good as it gets. A memorable and heartfelt look at what might happen to a family who knows too much. It's amazing how good this book is' Karen Joy Fowler
It's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. Four siblings, too young for what they are about to hear, sneak out to hear their fortunes.
We then follow the intertwined paths the siblings take over the course of five decades and, in particular, how they choose to live with the supposed knowledge the fortune-teller gave them that day. This is a story about life, mortality and the choices we make: is it better to live a long and cautious life, or to burn brightly, but for the shortest time?
(P)2018 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Chloe Benjamin’s humanistic second novel raises an irresistible question: If you knew precisely when your life will end, how would you spend the time you have left? That quandary faces the Gold family in 1969, after the four New York siblings consult a psychic who can supposedly pinpoint the exact end of a person’s life. As that profound knowledge seeps in, each of them sets off on a very different trajectory. The Immortalists is likely to prompt debate about predetermination while telling an ambitious story of family and individualism. Narrated by Maggie Hoffman with confiding closeness, the audiobook follows this family as they grapple with the weight of their knowledge. Along the way, they question what gifts they received from their parents and how they might use them.
