Lincoln in the Bardo : A Novel (Hardcover)

from Cariola

I started listening to this book on audio last summer but gave up. It's just too complex for that format, at least for me--too many voices in rapid-fire conversation, all the quotations from contemporaneous accounts, etc. I just could not keep track of what was going on, but I felt that this was ...

from RandyMetcalfe

In the cemetery in which Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, has just been interred, the shades of those who have not relinquished their ties to their earlier existence consider his arrival and the remarkable appearance, in the middle of the night, of Willie's grief-stricken father. No wonder Willie's...

from therem

A tale both vast in scope -- across history and many viewpoints -- and utterly focused on one man's experience of intense grief over a short span of time: a single night in a cemetery where his young son has just been interred. That sounds ponderous, but the book is anything but! Every word in it...

from ozzie65

This is one of those books that sits with you and that you find yourself mulling over and discussing with other people. Your first instinct is to either love it or hate it, but as you keep talking about it, you realize that this is a really good book. And it would have made one hell of a Twilight...

from MATank22

This book was such a thrill to read. It's not done in your typical style, but more in a conversation style, like a play. It incorporates historical accounts and excerpts from other books to provide background, mood, etc. Saunders really did his research! I laughed, cried, and didn't want to pu...