Book of the Month Our Recommendation for May 2020

The story is set in 1969, in New York’s Lower East Side. Living in a grotty tenement building is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. Four young siblings, The Golds, sneak out of their own apartment to learn their fortunes. Each child deals with this information in different ways. Either throwing caution to the wind, living life like every day is their last, hurtling towards the inevitable or attempting to cheat or defy the knowledge, but each in their own way a slave to the fortune teller’s predictions. Each sibling gets his/her own section of the book, prompting our own questions about how we would deal with this earth-shattering information. Do we choose to live or do we choose to survive……..