General Description: If you knew what day you'd die, what would you do? The Gold children have an opportunity to explore this. Simon, Klara, Daniel, and Varya visit a woman who tells them the day they are going to day. You then follow Simon and Klara as they move to San Francisco, then Klara traveling as a magician, then Daniel in his final days, and finally Varya as she copes with all the deaths.

The good:
- Simon's section of the book is extremely strong.
- I appreciated the historical sections within this book and how history wove itself into the story.
- Varya's section was also interesting.

The loss of 2 stars:
- This is no plot. It's extremely character driven and I finished it solely for book club (I had no internal desire to finish the book after Simon's section). HOWEVER if you like character driven stories, this will be good for you. (that being said, I did not like Klara or Daniel's sections.)
- It felt extremely slow as a read and there was a lot of higher level prose that kept me disengaged from the book (maybe this was above my lexile level but who knows).

Overall: If you need a book with a plot, others exist. If you need a character driven book, this will probably fit that bill!