It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds. Novel Title: The Immortalists Author: Chloe Benjamin Genre: Contemporary Literary Fiction, Literary Sagas, Teen & Young Adult eBooks Publish Date: 9 January 2018 Size: 2. A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists is a story about how we live, how we die, and what we do with the time we have.

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, hoping to control fate and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.Ī sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. The prophecies inform their next five decades. 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. Chloe Benjamin has written an inspiring book that makes you think hard about what you want to do with the time youre given. The Gold children-four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness-sneak out to hear their fortunes. Through the lens of magical realism, characters are presented with the ability to glimpse into the future and uncover their destinies. 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. In Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists, she utilizes magical realism to present an exploration of fate and destiny.

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin