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 seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11, hoping to control fate and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.Ī sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. The prophecies inform their next five decades. The Gold children-four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness-sneak out to hear their fortunes. 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.
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