Full name: Eternal Life: A Novel

Author: Dara Horn Year: 2018 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393356564 9780393608533 0393356566 0393608530

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. Similar books: The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand The Elementals by Morgan Llywelyn The Thief of Time by John Boyne In the Suicide Mountains by John Gardner The Book of Spirits by James Reese Lord Byron's Novel by John Crowley The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington The Secrets of Jin-shei by Alma Alexander The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen Veronica by Nicholas Christopher Hunger's Brides by Paul Anderson The Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin Second Generation by Howard Fast The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates Circe by Madeline Miller The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia Scriber by Ben S. Dobson The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer