Lincoln in the Bardo
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The
long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December a
moving and original father-son story featuring none other than
Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting
characters, living and dead, historical and invented February 1862.
The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in
earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long,
bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved
eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House,
gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a
recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery.
"My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president says
at the time. "God has called him home." Newspapers report that a
grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times
to hold his boy's body. From that seed of historical truth, George
Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss
that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a
supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln
finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe,
commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within
this transitional state--called, in the Tibetan tradition, the
bardo--a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.
Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a
bold step forward from one of the most important and influential
writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit,
deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to
fiction's ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things
that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new
form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to
ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we
know that everything we love must end? Praise for Lincoln in the
Bardo "A luminous feat of generosity and humanism."--Colson
Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review "A masterpiece."--Zadie
Smith "Ingenious . . . Saunders--well on his way toward becoming a
twenty-first-century Twain--crafts an American patchwork of love
and loss, giving shape to our foundational sorrows."--Vogue
"Saunders is the most humane American writer working
today."--Harper's Magazine