{"product_id":"the-regrets-9780316516167","title":"The Regrets","description":"\u003cb\u003eReality and dream collide in Amy Bonnaffons's \"dazzling,\" wildly inventive \"miracle of a love story\" about an affair between the living and the dead (\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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.\u003cbr\u003eStuck 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.\u003cbr\u003eSet in the hallucinatory borderland between life and death, \u003ci\u003eThe Regrets\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Bonnaffons's\u003c\/b\u003e work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among other places, and has been read on \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a founding editor of \u003ci\u003e7x7.la\u003c\/i\u003e, an online journal that publishes collaborations between writers and visual artists. She holds an MFA from NYU and currently lives in Athens, GA, where she is pursuing a PhD at the University of Georgia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514062016786,"sku":"9780316516167","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8b084946-76ef-4df2-b4ce-6697438bf5b8.jpg?v=1730972082","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-regrets-9780316516167","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}