This will be an excellent book club book. Don’t worry, you won’t get whiplash from the twists the story takes, but you will likely fall in love with the Gold family and Chloe Benjamin’s novel, a whip-smart and unexpectedly philosophical story of fate, faith, and family. Simon, Klara, Daniel, and Varya each must confront a life where free will and destiny collide. Do I really need to say any more? The four sections of The Immortalists are told by a different sibling, and the story rockets across the country, veering into emergent gay culture, the world of magicians, a military processing station, and an aging research lab.

On the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the late 1960s, four children meet a fortune teller, who tells them when each of them is going to die. The Immortalists is a phenomenal story that will draw you into each siblings life and leave you hungry for more. For the Gold children, the answers become complex and yet very simple as they figure out how to live their life with a date that looms over as a blessing or perhaps a burden depending on your views. However, this is no ordinary fortune teller, this fortune teller will give you the date of your death. Chloe Benjamin brings us an emotional novel about a universal question-What if you could find out the date of your death? Would you want to know? Would it change the way you live your life? When Daniel Gold hears the rumor that there's a fortune teller nearby, he convinces his sisters, Varya and Klara to go and find out what their future holds with little brother Simon tagging along.

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