The Regrets
Amy Bonnaffons$22.95
$27.00
Reality and dream collide in Amy Bonnaffons's "dazzling," wildly inventive "miracle of a love story" about an affair between the living and the dead (NPR)
For weeks, Rachel has been noticing the same golden-haired young man sitting at her Brooklyn bus stop, staring off with a melancholy air. When, one day, she finally musters the courage to introduce herself, the chemistry between them is undeniable: Thomas is wise, witty, handsome, mysterious, clearly a kindred spirit. There's just one tiny problem: He's dead.
Stuck in a surreal limbo governed by bureaucracy, Thomas is unable to "cross over" to the afterlife until he completes a 90-day stint on earth, during which time he is forbidden to get involved with a member of the living -- lest he incur "regrets." When Thomas and Rachel break this rule, they unleash a cascade of bizarre, troubling consequences.
Set in the hallucinatory borderland between life and death, The Regrets is a gloriously strange and breathtakingly sexy exploration of love, the cataclysmic power of fantasies, and the painful, exhilarating work of waking up to reality, told with uncommon grace and humor by a visionary artist at the height of her imaginative power.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 02/04/2020
ISBN: 9780316516167
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.30d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2019 pg. 47
Booklist 11/01/2019 pg. 37
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2019 pg. 115
Publishers Weekly 11/25/2019
Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 78
Shelf Awareness 02/25/2020
For weeks, Rachel has been noticing the same golden-haired young man sitting at her Brooklyn bus stop, staring off with a melancholy air. When, one day, she finally musters the courage to introduce herself, the chemistry between them is undeniable: Thomas is wise, witty, handsome, mysterious, clearly a kindred spirit. There's just one tiny problem: He's dead.
Stuck in a surreal limbo governed by bureaucracy, Thomas is unable to "cross over" to the afterlife until he completes a 90-day stint on earth, during which time he is forbidden to get involved with a member of the living -- lest he incur "regrets." When Thomas and Rachel break this rule, they unleash a cascade of bizarre, troubling consequences.
Set in the hallucinatory borderland between life and death, The Regrets is a gloriously strange and breathtakingly sexy exploration of love, the cataclysmic power of fantasies, and the painful, exhilarating work of waking up to reality, told with uncommon grace and humor by a visionary artist at the height of her imaginative power.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 02/04/2020
ISBN: 9780316516167
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.30d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2019 pg. 47
Booklist 11/01/2019 pg. 37
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2019 pg. 115
Publishers Weekly 11/25/2019
Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 78
Shelf Awareness 02/25/2020