Book Club

Join us for good company and good discussion! This month's selection is The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. New members always welcome! Order your copy from the library.

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 seeks 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.

A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.

You may also like the following events from Newfane Public Library:

• This Tuesday, 22nd July, 10:30 am, Summer Storytime in Newfane
• This Tuesday, 22nd July, 06:00 pm, Japanese Mahjong for Beginners in Newfane
• This Wednesday, 23rd July, 03:30 pm, Drop-In Craft: Altered Book in Newfane