A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post NPR Entertainment Weekly Real Simple Marie
Claire New York Public Library LibraryReads The Skimm Lit Hub Lit Reactor AN INSTANT NEW
YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A captivating family saga.--The New York Times Book ReviewThis 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.
