The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

A Washington Post Notable Book
An NPR Book of the Year
An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Lit Hub Favorite Book of the Year
A LibraryReads Top 10 Book of the Year

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER

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

You won't be able to put it down.--The Skimm (Skimm Reads Pick)

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

A sprawling, enchanting family saga.--Entertainment Weekly (The Must List)

A dazzling family love story reminiscent of Everything I Never Told You from a novelist heralded by Lorrie Moore as a great new talent.

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 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.

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.

Chloe Benjamin is the author of The Immortalists, a New York Times bestseller, and The Anatomy of Dreams. A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, LibraryReads favorite, and #1 Indie Next pick, The Immortalists was named a best book of 2018 by NPR, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and others. The Anatomy of Dreams received the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award and was longlisted for the 2014 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Originally from San Francisco, CA, Chloe is a graduate of Vassar College and the M.F.A. in fiction at the University of Wisconsin. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives with her husband in Madison, WI.

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ISBN 13	9780735213180
ISBN 10	0735213186
Title	The Immortalists
Author	Chloe Benjamin
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2018-01-09
Number of pages	352
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