Saunders describes a period – hundreds of years, or perhaps a few hours only – in a graveyard, Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, DC, where William (Willy) Wallace Lincoln, the son of U.S.
It is no wonder that Saunders was awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for the novel in October 2017. George Saunders has written a new type of story which I think of as Magic Realism in reverse. It is also beautiful, memorable, tremendously emotional and has “a triumph!” written all over it.
I wrote this review of Lincoln in the Bardo carefully, and I spent some time making sense of it, because the genre is a variant that I had not come across before, and it contains dialogue in forms that the author, George Saunders, had created specifically for each character in the novel.
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