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What would it really mean to live forever?
Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can't die. Her recent troublesâwidowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged sonâare 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 grandchildrenâconsumed with immortality in their own ways, from the frontiers of digital currency to genetic engineeringâdevelop 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
- Cover
- Title
- Chapter 1. #Crazyoldlady
- Chapter 2. The Invention of Regret
- Chapter 3. Consultations
- Chapter 4. Mortality
- Chapter 5. To Annul a Vow
- Chapter 6. Coin Collection
- Chapter 7. An Old Flame
- Chapter 8. Abundance
- Chapter 9. Exceptions
- Chapter 10. Do Unto Others
- Chapter 11. Death-Flavored Smoothie
- Chapter 12. It Goes by so Fast
- Chapter 13. House Fire
- Chapter 14. Her Time
- Chapter 15. Days of Old
- Acknowledgements
- Praise for Eternal Life
- Also by Dara Horn
- Copyright
