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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.