How would you live your life if you knew the exact date of
your death? Would your choices take you
to that fateful day or lead you away?
And most importantly, are they even choices anymore? Benjamin cleverly explores this dilemma in
The Immortalists. This imaginative and gripping family drama follows the
scatter shot lives of the four Gold siblings.
As young teens they visit a Roma Gypsy fortune teller who foretells the
exact date of their deaths. Armed with
this information they make choices regarding their futures and how they live
their lives. These choices ultimately
lead each one of them to their day of reckoning. Each life story is gripping and
heartbreaking. The reader is left constantly
wondering if they had turned left instead of right could they have lived
another day, or is all of life written in the stars. I highly recommend this book for readers of
Donna Tartt, Alice Hoffman, and Anita Shreve.
Reviewed by Amy Churchill, Head of Zauel Library
