Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders · 2017

George Saunders's Booker Prize-winning novel about Abraham Lincoln, grief, memory, and historical storytelling.

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George Saunders · Booker Prize-winning novelist

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George SaundersBooker Prize-winning novelist

American fiction writer and author of Lincoln in the Bardo.

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Bill Gates Co-founder, Microsoft; philanthropist

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I loved how he uses these flashbacks to show how fuzzy our recollections of the past can be.

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