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Name of Book: Eternal Life Author: Dara Horn ISBN: 978-0-393-60853-3 Publisher: W.W. Norton and Company Type of book: Philosophy, immortality, fertility, family, children, Judaism, Roman times, marriage, modern times, bitcoin, divorce, temple sacrifices, sins, cheating, death Year it was published: 2018 Summary: 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...