![]() ![]() It relentlessly draws the readers inside the sticky, humid New York of yore and the cold future that is about to happen. And thus, the bittersweet novel starts unfolding. A Romany woman uses clairvoyant powers to predict the exact dates the siblings will die. In a sweltering summer of 1969, the Gold children – four siblings – gain a preview of their death. Benjamin is keenly aware of the inherent sorrow underlying one’s failure to cheat mortality, and she is not ashamed to explore it in a gimmicky premise of her novel. ![]() Aptly titled, the book grapples with the matters of life and death as well as an expiry date ending the latter and initiating the former. Immortalist by Chloe Benjamin is a novel of sweeping ambition and fiendish poignancy. ![]()
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