Novel lincoln in the bardo5/22/2023 Melvin McLeod: How did the idea for this story come to you? I spoke to George Saunders about this unusual and thought-provoking meditation on love, loss, and the very nature of life and death. The book is a tragic father-and-son story-Abraham lost in grief, Willie lost in a ghostly and confusing realm-told simultaneously from two points of view: the living and the recently dead. The Lincoln who is in the bardo-the realm between death and rebirth-is Abraham and Mary’s son Willie, who has just died in the White House at the age of eleven. Lincoln in the Bardo, by renowned American short story writer (and Buddhist) George Saunders, is surely the first major novel to use the Tibetan word bardo in the title.
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