Reincarnation Blues: A Novel

"Milo is a wise man who is making his own meandering way toward perfection, who has already lived 9,995 of his allotted 10,000 lives. If that sounds soft and New Age-y, it isn’t. Instead it’s a very heavy story about redemption and kindness cloaked in goofiness and the kind of wild imagination that you just don’t see often. Michael Poore tells the story of Milo’s final five lives here, but the real joy in Reincarnation Blues is when he digresses into discussions of some of the other 9,995 that Milo has lived. Poore can break your heart with a single line. He can do absurdity, dry humor, shark attacks, philosophical anarchy and an acceptance of the hard fact that every life is a death sentence, made valuable only by what we choose to do between the first day and the last one."