![]() This novel is about a set of siblings who visit a fortune-teller as children. The woman tells them the days on which they will each die. Fast forward several years at a time and the novel follows each sibling in the years, months, and days leading up to their death. I did not like this book. Folks are raving about it. Internet book clubs highlight it. My mom loved it. I even had to wait on hold a few months at the library to get it. Perhaps it is because of this hype that I am underwhelmed. And that's just it: I'm not excited about this story and it fell flat for me. One aspect of the book that I thought more deeply about is the paradox of predicting one's death date. The characters live their lives knowing the day they will die, so do they live differently because of that knowledge? For the one who knows he will live to 25 years, is that why he lives so aggressively? Or does he die because he is so reckless? I still don't know, but this may be a topic for further discussion.
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