Eternal Life
eBook - ePub

Eternal Life

A Novel

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Eternal Life

A Novel

About this book

A New York Times Notable Book
A Booklist Editors' Choice
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
What would it really mean to live forever?

Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles—widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son—are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, she's tried everything to free herself, and only one other person in the world understands: a man she once loved passionately, who has been stalking her through the centuries, convinced they belong together forever.

But as the twenty-first century begins and her children and grandchildren—consumed with immortality in their own ways, from the frontiers of digital currency to genetic engineering—develop new technologies that could change her fate and theirs, Rachel knows she must find a way out.

Gripping, hilarious, and profoundly moving, Eternal Life celebrates the bonds between generations, the power of faith, the purpose of death, and the reasons for being alive.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Chapter 1. #Crazyoldlady
  4. Chapter 2. The Invention of Regret
  5. Chapter 3. Consultations
  6. Chapter 4. Mortality
  7. Chapter 5. To Annul a Vow
  8. Chapter 6. Coin Collection
  9. Chapter 7. An Old Flame
  10. Chapter 8. Abundance
  11. Chapter 9. Exceptions
  12. Chapter 10. Do Unto Others
  13. Chapter 11. Death-Flavored Smoothie
  14. Chapter 12. It Goes by so Fast
  15. Chapter 13. House Fire
  16. Chapter 14. Her Time
  17. Chapter 15. Days of Old
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. Praise for Eternal Life
  20. Also by Dara Horn
  21. Copyright