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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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American fiction writer and author of Lincoln in the Bardo.

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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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TIME reports Gates's 2018 summer Gates Notes list and quotes his comments on Lincoln in the Bardo.

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