![]() Simon, the youngest, dreams of living life freely as a gay man, something he knows is not possible around his parents’ expectations of taking over the family business. The novel follows each sibling as they navigate life with this information, and we see how it affects them both individually and as a family. Though they learn the date when they are young (ages seven, nine, eleven, and thirteen), each carries the knowledge with them the rest of their lives. The story tells the tale of four siblings who, living in New York’s Lower East Side in 1969 with their Jewish parents, go to a mystical neighborhood woman who predicts the date each will die. ![]() ![]() The Immortalists is a page turner, as addictive as it is emotionally searing. The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin’s much-anticipated second novel, has been called by Entertainment Weekly, “2018’s First Must-Read” for a very good reason. ![]()
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