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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/23/2018
ISBN: 9780393608533
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.30d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2017
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2017 pg. 10
Publishers Weekly 10/30/2017
Library Journal 11/15/2017 pg. 72
Booklist 12/15/2017 pg. 86
Foreword 12/26/2017
Shelf Awareness 02/02/2018