The Regrets Audiobook (Free)

Reality and fantasy collide in Amy Bonnaffons’s dazzling, darkly playful, ‘deep and deeply funny’ debut book about a love affair between your living and the dead. (Kirkus)

For weeks, Rachel has been noticing the same golden-haired son sitting at her Brooklyn bus end, staring off having a melancholy air. When, 1 day, she finally musters the courage to present herself, the chemistry between them is usually undeniable: Thomas pays, witty, handsome, mystical, obviously a kindred heart. There’s about The Regrets just one tiny issue: He’s dead.

Stuck in a surreal limbo governed by bureaucracy, Thomas is unable to ‘mix over’ to the afterlife until he completes a 90-time stint on the planet, during which time he’s forbidden to get involved with a member from the living — lest he incur ‘regrets.’ When Thomas and Rachel break this guideline, they unleash a cascade of bizarre, troubling effects.

Set in the hallucinatory borderland between life and loss of life, The Regrets is a gloriously strange and breathtakingly sexy exploration of like, the cataclysmic power of fantasies, and the painful, exhilarating work of waking up to actuality, told with uncommon grace and humor with a visionary musician at the elevation of her imaginative power.