Lincoln in the Bardo

Summary

On the night Abraham Lincoln slips into a Washington cemetery to hold the body of his eleven-year-old son Willie, a chorus of restless spirits in the graveyard bears witness, caught between life and whatever comes next. Saunders builds the novel from fragments of historical sources and dozens of ghostly voices, refusing a single narrator. The result is a strange, tender experiment about grief, transition, and the persistence of love.