Asher was Luke’s older brother. Luke tells Varya that when Asher was a teenager and Luke was a toddler, he caused Asher’s death. Luke was meant to watch Asher as he checked for clumps in the grain bins on their farm. Instead, Luke ran away to hide and Asher sank into the grain bin and suffocated.
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Asher Character Timeline in The Immortalists
The timeline below shows where the character Asher appears in The Immortalists. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 34
Luke says that he’s experienced loss, too. He says that his older brother Asher died when Asher was a teenager and Luke was a toddler. One day, they visited...
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Chapter 35
...When he picks up, she explains that she’s sorry for what happened to him and Asher. She tells him he can’t go through life convinced it was his fault, because he...
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