What happens if one doesn't meet perfection no one knows but all don't believe that it is good. However, you have only 10,000 chances and Milo is nearing the end. Most don't need 10,000 opportunities however, Milo is finds perfection too loosely defined to achieve it. According to this novel, we have 10,000 opportunities to reach Platonic perfection and become one with the cosmic soul. Dying is nothing new, Milo has died 9,994 times before. The novel unfolds with Milo dying after being eaten by a shark. It reads like a writer having fun.” - New York Journal of Books Read more 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.

Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore