Here’s what it’s like to live in the suburbs in 2006. Here’s what it’s like to be a touring stage magician living a life of vagabond glamour in the ’90s note the era-appropriate details of the car phone and the smoking section at the restaurant. To cheat death, she decides, she must give up all the coping mechanisms her siblings used to cling to their lives before their deaths.īenjamin enters each sibling’s head sequentially, giving the book a four-act structure, with each act functioning as a period piece: Here is the queer scene in San Francisco in the early ’80s note the AIDS crisis lurking in the background (in a slightly rote and predictable fashion). She’s a scientist who researches longevity, and she believes that the best ways to stop aging are to suppress the reproductive system or restrict one’s caloric intake - in other words, to never succumb to either hedonism or to domesticity. Daniel, set to die at 48, aggressively embraces bourgeois domesticity: He becomes a doctor, gets married, buys a home, and courts stability at all costs.īut Vera, set to die at 88, denies herself everything.
Klara, who learns that she will die at 32, becomes obsessed with death-defying stage magic feats.
Simon learns that he will die at 20, and in response, he embraces his queer identity, leaving his family behind to start a new life in San Francisco. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark
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