My second five-star book of the year! “Forever” follows Cormac O’Conner, an Irishman from the 1730s, who becomes gifted with long life through a series of spectacular and semi-magical events after he immigrates to New York. There’s one catch to his near-immortality, though: he can never leave Manhattan Isle. He becomes penned into the island’s boundaries where he watches the dank little Hudson River town turn into the roiling metropolis of the modern era. He lives through British soldiers fighting Washington’s troops in the forests around […]