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Lincoln in the Bardo
Short story writer, George Saunders, has written his first novel and what an extraordinary one it is! In the genre of historical fiction, it takes us to the time following the death of Abraham Lincoln's 10-year old son, Willie. When Abraham Lincoln lingers in the cemetery after the funeral, his love and affection keeps his son, Willie, from passing on to the afterlife because he doesn't want to leave his father. Willie is stuck in the bardo, a place between death and rebirth and it is there he meets an ensemble of other ghosts who remain in the bardo. Through their voices, you begin to understand why they are stuck and what happened in their lives that is prohibiting them from letting go. The unusual characters and writing style makes this an engaging and entrancing book, one with little predictability, one you won't soon forget.