I REGRET EVERYTHING
A modern love story, I Regret Everything confronts the oceanic uncertainty of what it means to be alive, and in love. Jeremy Best, a Manhattan-based trusts and estates lawyer, leads a second life as published poet Jinx Bell. To his boss’s daughter, Spaulding Simonson, Jeremy, thirty-three, is already halfway to dead. When Spaulding, an aspiring nineteen year-old writer, discovers Mr. Best’s alter ego, the two become bound by a devotion to poetry and an awareness that time is limited.
A skilled satirist, Greenland creates finely wrought characters that reveal the complexity of the human condition – at its very best, and utter worst. I Regret Everything explores happiness and heartache with a healthy dose of skepticism, and an understanding that the reality of love encompasses life, death, and iambic pentameter.
“Greenland’s fourth novel proves affecting and funny.”
“Edgy and sweet, witty and wise, I Regret Everything is rollicking good fun. It’s also, in the end, a deeply moving love story between two unforgettable characters discovering what it means to truly be alive.”
“I Regret Everything: A Love Story is an intoxicating and ultimately moving modern romance…Greenland’s a skilled satirist who can’t help but pepper the book with wit.”
“I was under the spell of the book and the fierce message at its core — “Never give in” — and its acute sense of the velocity of time. Days later, I’m still touched, inspired and wounded by I Regret Everything. Consider yourselves warned.”
“Greenland hits all the right notes for this fledgling romance—attraction, uncertainty, self-consciousness—as the main characters tell the story in distinctive voices. His playful, well-crafted writing captures personality or atmosphere in a few phrases, and the characters’ self-assessments reveal the rich inner lives driving their actions.”
