![]() ![]() Each follows the life of one sibling, beginning with Simon, the youngest, and ending with Varya, the eldest. This is the way their stories are told in the novel: after the prologue, in which the Golds receive their prophecies, the novel is split into four sections. Like real siblings, they came into focus one by one - though in my case they did so in reverse, from youngest to oldest. What I do remember, in painstaking detail, is the process of developing each sibling’s identity, which took many months and sometimes years of individualized research. The truth is that it simmered for years, condensing slowly it’s hard to pinpoint the moment when the idea was first sparked. When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, The Immortalists - four siblings visit a fortune teller who is rumored to be able to tell anyone the date that they will die - I always wish I had a better answer. ![]()
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