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The Regrets by Amy Bonnaffons
5.0

This is everything I love in a book. Literary. Kind of bananas. A little bit of romance.

"It is a plot that could be—that should be—unbearably twee, oppressively quirky, in love with its own melancholy. Instead, Bonnaffons' (The Wrong Heaven, 2018) first full-length novel is a rare pleasure: a philosophical rom-com too weird, too bodily, too precise, too fun to get bogged down in trembling sentiment. Deep and deeply funny." -Kirkus

Genre: Literary fiction; Love stories; Surrealist fiction
Character: Well-developed
Storyline: Character-driven
Tone: Bittersweet; Explicit; Funny; Romantic
Writing Style: Candid; Lyrical; Well-crafted dialogue