Event List
Book Discussion Group
- Date: 03/13/2019 9:15 am - 11:00 am
- Location: Newport Beach Central Library, Friends Meeting Room
1000 Avocado Avenue
Newport Beach, California 92660
The Charlotte “Charlie” Alexander
Book Discussion Group
- Wednesday mornings @ 9:15 – 11:00am
- Friends Room at the Newport Beach Central Library
- Doors open at 9:00 am; no reserved seating
- Sessions are free; reservations not required
- Authors are not present unless noted
- If you have not finished or read the book, come anyway!
- Information: nbplfoundation.org
March 13, 2019
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
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. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden‐boy Simon escapes to the West Coast; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post‐9/11, hoping to control fate; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.