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While the nov­el con­tains mys­ti­cal ele­ments and asks larg­er-than-life ques­tions, it is also a relat­able sto­ry that deals with the com­plex­i­ties of rela­tion­ships and loss.Įach chap­ter focus­es on one sib­ling, tak­ing the read­er on four dis­tinct jour­neys span­ning fifty years. They seek out a for­tune teller who claims to know when each of them will die what they find out ends up chang­ing the course of their lives. After their father dies, the four sib­lings, Simon, Klara, Daniel, and Varya, become pre­oc­cu­pied with the idea of death.

If you found out when you were going to die, how would your life change?Ĭhloe Ben­jamin fix­ates on this ques­tion in her nov­el The Immor­tal­ists, a sto­ry about the Golds, a Jew­ish fam­i­ly liv­ing in New York City in the late 1960s.