And he dies in a lot of really fantastic ways. He’s usually a man, but sometimes a woman or a child or a catfish. Dying and coming back to life in pursuit of that one person that completes you. Reincarnation is one of my favorite fantasy tropes, particularly when it’s paired with the idea of true love.

But the blurb sucked me in straight away. In this case, I was handed a copy of Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore himself during Book Con in New York City. Friends and relatives gift books we may or may not really enjoy. Book boxes mail out a semi-random selection. It reads like a writer having fun.People acquire books in all kinds of ways. It reads like a writer having fun.” - New York Journal of Books Reminiscent of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore, Poore finds humor in the dark absurdities of life.” - Chicago Review of Books “The most fun you’ll have reading about a man who has been killed by both catapult and car accident.” -NPR 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.īecause it’s more than Milo and Suzie’s story. 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.īut 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. But all Milo really wants is to fall forever into the arms of Death. If he doesn’t make the cut, oblivion awaits. Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earn a place in the cosmic soul. Ten thousand lives to “get it right.” Answer all the Big Questions. “Tales of gods and men akin to Neil Gaiman’s Sandman as penned by a kindred spirit of Douglas Adams.”- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)įirst we live.

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