Salinger's Glass family - immortal in their own way - in creating the stable of brothers and sisters in The Immortalists. Their hyperawareness, their keen sensitivity to the tragic impermanence of life, forms the spine of the novel.īenjamin was surely influenced by J. But as the psychic ushers the young Golds one by one into her apartment lair, they each become privy to the kind of forbidden knowledge that is both a curse and a gift - the exact date when they will die. With a few notable exceptions, we know not the hour of our passing. These four - Simon, Klara, Daniel and Varya Gold - comprise the central quartet in The Immortalists, the second novel from Chloe Benjamin. With long brown hair that "hangs in two slender braids," and lips that are "puckered like a drawstring purse," she attracts the young Gold children, who seek an audience with the crone as a respite from their summertime blues. On New York's Lower East Side in 1969, a fortune teller has set up shop in a tenement on Hester Street.
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