Literary Fiction
by George Saunders
When Abraham Lincoln's son Willie dies in 1862, the president visits his crypt, unleashing a night of phantasmagoric visions in the cemetery's bardo—a transitional space between death and what comes after. Saunders constructs the novel from a chorus of ghostly voices, historical documents, and the president's grief, creating a meditation on loss, fatherhood, and a nation tearing itself apart. A stunning formal experiment about love persisting beyond death.
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