Thought Train to Pusan

I am but one of a number of Cannonballers who have read The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin so far this year! And for the most part I enjoyed it, as I know some others did. Though I think the front half really got me more so than the latter half, which is not to say that things don’t all come together and create a beautiful story, but I think it really boils down to feeling more of a connection with some of the characters whose points of view are focused on earlier on. The Immortalists tells the story of four siblings named Simon, Klara, Daniel, and Varya, who, when children faced with another boring day one summer, decide to go see a fortune teller who will tell them the day that they will die. While one of the siblings is told she faces a long life ahead, the others are decidedly shorter. From there, the novel focuses on each sibling’s story one by one, and the events of their life leading to their death, before picking up with the next sibling in line: Simon...