"He believes in bad choices; he believes in bad luck. And yet the memory of the woman on Hester Street is like a minuscule needle in his stomach, something he swallowed long ago and which floats, undetectable, except for moments when he moves a certain way and feels a prick."
I went into this book expecting it to be a so-so book, but I am blown away. The Immortalists opens with the Gold children (Varya-13, Daniel-11, Klara-9 and Simon-7) visiting a psychic who meets alone with each child to reveal the age they will die. The novel then follows each child through life to the day of their death. Although each child lived so different from one another, I found myself relating to a small piece of each of them. The last two children were my least favorite but their stories still needed to be revealed. Chloe Benjamin surges the reader through time from past to present and we are witness to how life events affect everyone.
The big question of the book; would they have lived and ended up with the same fate even if they didn't know when they would die? Each of the Gold children revisit the memory of the psychic throughout their life, whether they believe it or not.
I went into this book expecting it to be a so-so book, but I am blown away. The Immortalists opens with the Gold children (Varya-13, Daniel-11, Klara-9 and Simon-7) visiting a psychic who meets alone with each child to reveal the age they will die. The novel then follows each child through life to the day of their death. Although each child lived so different from one another, I found myself relating to a small piece of each of them. The last two children were my least favorite but their stories still needed to be revealed. Chloe Benjamin surges the reader through time from past to present and we are witness to how life events affect everyone.
The big question of the book; would they have lived and ended up with the same fate even if they didn't know when they would die? Each of the Gold children revisit the memory of the psychic throughout their life, whether they believe it or not.