Audio Book Review: The Immortalists: A novel by Chloe Benjamin
Release Date: January 9, 2018 Publisher: Penguin Audio Format: Audio Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Narrator: Maggie Hoffman Genre: Fiction Buy: Audible | Kindle | Paperback Synopsis: 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 s...