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New York Times Notable Book of 2018
What would it really mean to live forever?
Trade Review"The question at the heart of this wise and appealing novel is finally not how Rachel finds meaning in her eternal life. It is how we, despite our portions of sorrow, tedium and disaster, persist in finding meaning in ours." -- Joshua Max Feldman - New York Times Book Review
"I have been in love with Horn’s work since her first gorgeous novel,
In the Image . . . [This book] simmers with Horn’s signature blend of tragedy and spirituality." -- Ron Charles - Washington Post
"Rachel speaks with the wisdom of the ancients when she observes that immortality offers no consolation for the death of others. ‘Not dying doesn’t make it better,” she says of all that sorrow. ‘It only makes it take longer.’" -- Sam Sachs - Wall Street Journal
"To an extent, it’s the humor (and horror) of infinite diaper changes that drives this masterful page-turner. However,
Eternal Life is at its core a serious meditation on the meaning of life and purpose of death.”" -- Renee Ghert-Zand - Times of Israel
"As a philosophical novel,
Eternal Life asks the most fundamental of questions: What makes life meaningful? Is its traditional arc, from birth through family formation to death, necessary? Is it a blessing that we insufficiently appreciate?" -- Julia M. Klein - The Forward
"Horn does not hedge her bets, whipping up a Jewish telenovela of ancient-world drama and present-day complications. It’ll put you off immortality for good." -- Marion Winik - Newsday
"Most of us have had days where we question if existence is worth it; some of us have experienced an old flame that just won’t go out. In this hilarious and haunting story, Rachel, a mere 2,000 years old, has experienced both." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"The chilling pathos of Dara Horn’s
Eternal Life is bound to turn every mortal reader into a philosopher of cosmic joy." -- Cynthia Ozick, author of Foreign Bodies
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Eternal Life takes the psychological novel to places I’ve never seen before…Riveting, startling, hilarious, and sad—I’ve never read anything like it." -- Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot
"In
Eternal Life, the familiar account of the joys and sorrows of motherhood turns strange and mythical. Wisdom literature is a rare thing, and even rarer when it arrives, as it does here, in a story so passionate and playful." -- Joshua Ferris, author of The Dinner Party
"An elegant musing on sacredness, history, and purpose that is, at the same time, a deliciously romantic, highly suspenseful page-turner." -- Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord
