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    Reincarnation Blues: A Novel
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    Reincarnation Blues: A Novel

    Written by Michael Poore

    Narrated by Mark Bramhall

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    A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself.

    "Tales of gods and men akin to Neil Gaiman's Sandman as penned by a kindred spirit of Douglas Adams."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

    First we live. Then we die. And then . . . we get another try? 

    Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to "get it right." Answer all the Big Questions. Achieve Wisdom. And Become One with Everything.
        
    Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earn a place in the cosmic soul. If he doesn't make the cut, oblivion awaits. But all Milo really wants is to fall forever into the arms of Death. Or Suzie, as he calls her.

    More than just Milo's lover throughout his countless layovers in the Afterlife, Suzie is literally his reason for living—as he dives into one new existence after another, praying for the day he'll never have to leave her side again.
           
    But Reincarnation Blues is more than a great love story: Every journey from cradle to grave offers Milo more pieces of the great cosmic puzzle—if only he can piece them together in time to finally understand what it means to be part of something bigger than infinity. As darkly enchanting as the works of Neil Gaiman and as wisely hilarious as Kurt Vonnegut's, Michael Poore's Reincarnation Blues is the story of everything that makes life profound, beautiful, absurd, and heartbreaking.

    Because it's more than Milo and Suzie's story. It's your story, too.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 22, 2017
    ISBN9780525494508
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    Reincarnation Blues: A Novel
    Author

    Michael Poore

    Michael Poore’s work has appeared in the Southern Review, the Carolina Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fiction, StoryQuarterly, and Glimmer Train and has been nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize. His 2009 story “Blood Dauber,” written with Nebula Award nominee Ted Kosmatka, appeared in Asimov’s and has been nominated for the prestigious Sturgeon Award. It also won the Reader’s Choice Award and was selected for inclusion in the 2010 Year’s Best Science Fiction anthology. Up Jumps the Devil is his first novel.

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    • 5/5
      Believe the hype! It really is like Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams and Robert Heinlein had a brain baby. Officially one of my favorite books, right next to American Gods, Stranger in a Strange Land and Hitch Hikers Guide. <3 I am left a little in love with the author.
    • 5/5
      I've listened to this book about three times now. It's a wise and beautiful book and the narration is perfect.
    • 4/5
      Surprisingly entertaining; tedious in some parts but overall enjoyed it
    • 5/5
      Simply amazing! A must read, full of inspiration and wisdom <3
    • 3/5
      Some parts were gripping, dragged on a bit for my taste. Made me think about life.
    • 5/5
      This was such a wonderfully written story about reincarnation. I just loved everything about it. I haven't seen many contemporary fiction books about reincarnation (My name is memory by Anne Brashares was good too, so was Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins). I wish more authors would use this genre.