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The Department of Metaphyiscal Affairs
What if the person you've just met is someone you've loved for a thousand years?
Williamson is unemployed, recently divorced, and desperately looking for work as an accountant.
Then he discovers the Department of Metaphysical Affairs.
It is unlike any workplace he's ever encountered.
Time doesn't behave properly. Reality appears negotiable. Departments exist that shouldn't exist. And some of the people working there are people who should have been dead for centuries.
Then there is Khadija.
Beautiful. Mysterious. A dancer whose movements seem to speak a language Williamson somehow understands.
She tells him they've known each other before.
Williamson doesn't believe her.
At least, not at first.
Then the dreams begin.
Fragments of other lives. Other centuries. Other names.
And gradually, Williamson begins to discover that his connection with Khadija isn't new at all.
It is ancient.
As memories begin bleeding into the present, Williamson finds himself caught between the ordinary life he thinks he knows and a reality in which Shakespeare, Plato, Oscar Wilde, Rumi, Johnny Cash, Schrödinger and a bewildering collection of other impossible characters are perfectly at home.
There are accountants who may not be accountants, departments that shouldn't exist, historical figures who haven't yet died, poems appearing in Williamson's handwriting that he doesn't remember writing—and a love story that has been waiting a thousand years to reach its next chapter.
Funny, romantic, surreal and deeply poetic, The Department of Metaphysical Affairs is a journey through time, memory, reincarnation and the nature of love itself.
Because perhaps the greatest mysteries aren't the things we don't understand.
They're the things we have forgotten.
Where time is negotiable, reality is optional, and love is eternal.
Williamson is unemployed, recently divorced, and desperately looking for work as an accountant.
Then he discovers the Department of Metaphysical Affairs.
It is unlike any workplace he's ever encountered.
Time doesn't behave properly. Reality appears negotiable. Departments exist that shouldn't exist. And some of the people working there are people who should have been dead for centuries.
Then there is Khadija.
Beautiful. Mysterious. A dancer whose movements seem to speak a language Williamson somehow understands.
She tells him they've known each other before.
Williamson doesn't believe her.
At least, not at first.
Then the dreams begin.
Fragments of other lives. Other centuries. Other names.
And gradually, Williamson begins to discover that his connection with Khadija isn't new at all.
It is ancient.
As memories begin bleeding into the present, Williamson finds himself caught between the ordinary life he thinks he knows and a reality in which Shakespeare, Plato, Oscar Wilde, Rumi, Johnny Cash, Schrödinger and a bewildering collection of other impossible characters are perfectly at home.
There are accountants who may not be accountants, departments that shouldn't exist, historical figures who haven't yet died, poems appearing in Williamson's handwriting that he doesn't remember writing—and a love story that has been waiting a thousand years to reach its next chapter.
Funny, romantic, surreal and deeply poetic, The Department of Metaphysical Affairs is a journey through time, memory, reincarnation and the nature of love itself.
Because perhaps the greatest mysteries aren't the things we don't understand.
They're the things we have forgotten.
Where time is negotiable, reality is optional, and love is eternal.
296 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 1, 2026
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October 16, 2026
What can I say about this book? It’s certainly different! Clever, witty, funny, confusing. A great read!!!
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