"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.
