Tuesday October 19 at 6pm
Join our Classics Book Club in-person discussion session.
Dawn will discuss Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
Ghosts are among the players in this fine first novel from the acclaimed short-story writer. The tale takes its origin from the true story of Abraham Lincoln, who was mourning the loss of his young son, Willie, as the Civil War raged into its second year.
In the novel, Willie has become an inhabitant of the bardo – the Tibetan conception of purgatory – suspended between the living and the dead. And surrounded by ghosts who are not ready to go quietly into that great good night. A cacophony of ghostly voices is a prompt to consider the meaning of earthly love and what remains after it reaches its inevitable end.