What I’m saying is, I went into this book almost completely cold. I avoid re-reading the blurb directly before diving in so that I have no expectations. I tend to add books to my TBR and then completely forget what drew me to them. I found myself pulled into the story, having no idea where it would go. I remember being struck by the writing right away.

I am sitting down to write this review over a week after finishing The Immortalists and realizing I wrote myself very few notes to refer to, so I’m going to have to go off of what stands out to me the most from this book.

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. Their 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. If you were told the date of your death, how would it shape your present? Goodreads | IndieBound | Author’s Website Spoiler-free review of an ARC provided by the publisher as part of a Goodreads giveaway. Putnam’s Sons on January 9, 2018Ĭw: homophobia, suicide, depictions of OCD/anxiety, animal cruelty

The immortalists book review