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BOOKLASTIC BOOK CLUB: THE IMMORTALISTS

We’re not fantastic…we’re booklastic!

Booklastic meets on the last Wednesday of every month. Our April read is The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin. Check out the plot summary below!

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 struggles to maintain 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.”

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Plot summary adapted from the publisher.

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Earlier Event: May 23
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Later Event: June 1
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