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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • Real Simple • Marie Claire • New York Public Library • LibraryReads • The Skimm • Lit Hub • Lit Reactor AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A captivating family saga.”—The New York Times Book Review “This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt.”—People Magazine (Book of the Week) 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 seeks 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.
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“This entertaining audiobook is difficult to shut off. Enhancing the production is Hoffman, who has a lovely, moderately deep voice, an easy natural style, and a firm command of the material.”
— Los Angeles Times (audio review)
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“This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt.”
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“A sprawling, enchanting family saga.”
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“[Benjamin] casts a spell with…her affecting family saga.”
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“Continually ratcheting up the tension…A Jewish-American family saga.”
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“Magical…There are moments as taut as a thriller, when time disappears as you turn pages, and passages of quiet compassion.”
— Seattle Times
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New York Times bestseller
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A People Pick of the Week
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An Entertainment Weekly “Must Read”
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An Elle Magazine Pick of Books to Read This Winter
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A Harper’s Bazaar Pick of Upcoming Books
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A Southern Living Magazine Pick of Most Anticipated Books
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A Los Angeles Times Pick of 5 Fantastic New Audiobooks
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A January 2018 LibraryReads Pick
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A 2018 LibraryReads Favorites of the Favorites selection
The Immortalists Listener Reviews
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About Chloe Benjamin
Chloe Benjamin is the author of the novels The Immortalists and The Anatomy of Dreams, which received the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award and was long-listed for the 2014 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is a graduate of Vassar College and of the University of Wisconsin, where she received her MFA in fiction.
About Maggie Hoffman
Maggie Hoffman is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator.