Erika VanDam, RoscoeBooks, Chicago, IL Summer 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List I LOVED The Immortalists, and if there's any justice in bookselling, this book will find the massive audience it so deserves.” Apart from raising the obvious question (would you want to know the date of your death?), Benjamin brilliantly explores how family members can be both close to and distant from one another, and ponders the point at which our actions cease to matter and fate steps in. We follow the Gold siblings both separately and together over the next four decades and see how these revelations affect their choices, their behavior, and their relationships with one another. “In 1969, four siblings visit a fortune teller, who tells each child the date of their death.
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