The immortalists author5/21/2023 ![]() “It isn’t possible that their lives would have been the same after hearing such prophecies, but how drastically different would they be?” Simon was restless, for instance, but did what he learned give him that extra push to run away from home? “That’s the question of the book, and it’s so hard to answer,” says the ebullient Benjamin in a phone interview with LJ. ![]() Each struggles with presumably knowing his or her death date, and the reader can’t help but wonder how different their lives might have been had they never made that visit. ![]() Elders Daniel and Varya grow up to become an army doctor and a scientist, respectively, while headstrong Klara works as a magician in Las Vegas, and the insouciant youngest, Simon, finds love and dance in San Francisco. ![]() In Chloe Benjamin’s vibrant new novel, The Immortalists, four siblings in 1969 New York visit a fortune teller said to predict the date of one’s death. ![]()
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