There are a ton of other ghosts hanging out in the bardo too, so most of this book takes place in the graveyard.
Willie is essentially stuck between the moment of his death and the moment he moves onto the next place, which – in this novel – means heaven, since he is just a young 11-year-old boy.
Willie is laid to rest in a nearby crypt, where he finds himself stuck in the “bardo” which is an in-between place. President Abraham Lincoln grieves the loss of his son, Willie, and tries to keep up appearances while the American Civil War is going on. I felt like these were the main things happening in the story: The way the themes are woven throughout is marvelous and so very discussable.Įven so, I’m genuinely confused about what just happened here – because I absolutely loved some parts of this book and other parts left me with a what-the-heck-did-I-just-read feeling. This is a book about grief and loss, and those two things happen in different ways with pretty much every character throughout the story. When I saw a copy on the New Books shelf at my library, I grabbed it and decided to go ahead and give it a go. It grabbed my attention because Abraham Lincoln and his son Willie are major characters – I have always been very interested in not only Abraham Lincoln but this period of time in American History. Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders has had some serious airtime in my Litsy feed and I know that it has had tons of hype and buzz since before its publications date. It is also, in the end, an exploration of the deeper meaning and possibilities of life, written as only George Saunders can: with humor, pathos, and grace. 
Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death, grief, the powers of good and evil, a novel - in its form and voice - completely unlike anything you have read before. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son’s body. On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. The captivating first novel by the best-selling, National Book Award nominee George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War.
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