Then, on April 25, we’ll be sitting down with McCracken and getting you all the answers. Weren’t able to read along this month? Pick up a copy of our April pick, Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken, and send us any questions you have for the author at #TimeOutBookClub. Simon sets off to San Francisco looking for love, Karla becomes a professional magician, Daniel settles down, and Varya throws herself into cutting-edge scientific research (on longevity, natch).Ĭhloe joined this month’s book-club meeting via Skype to talk about the novel’s themes and characters, and she answers some burning questions from Time Out readers. The story begins on the Lower East Side in 1969, when the four Gold children-Simon, Karla, Daniel and Varya-pay a visit to a traveling psychic who is rumored to be able to predict the day anyone will die. What they’re told has far-reaching repercussions that affect the rest of their lives and irrevocably change the family forever. That’s the electrifying question that runs through Chloe Benjamin’s novel The Immortalists, a sweeping family saga that explores the tension between free will and fate, responsibility and independence, and, quite simply, four very different siblings. How would you live your life if you knew the day you were going to die?
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