02269cam a2200397 i 4500 394092998 TxAuBib 20191007120000.0 180709t20192018||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780735215092 073521509X (OCoLC)1042882812 TxAuBib rda Benjamin, Chloe,. The immortalists [(PB)] / Chloe Benjamin. G.P. Putnam's Sons trade paperback edition. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2019. ℗2018. 350 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes discussion guide. Includes bibliographical references. 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 the 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. 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-- Provided by publisher. 20191007. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Fortune-tellers Fiction. Families Fiction. Fate and fatalism Fiction. Magicians Fiction. Prophecies Fiction. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans.