![]() But for context, I give you this: when Abraham Lincoln’s son Willie passed away at age eleven from typhoid, Mr. ![]() To summarize this book in much detail would be to give it away, so all I do apologize for any vague parts of this review. And, somehow, it manages to do this while still being an accessible read that passes far faster than you would expect–though you wish it could last just a tiny bit longer. It is quite unlike anything I have read in a long time, and it makes the writer’s intelligence and skill apparent almost immediately. Witty, wise, weird, and wrenching, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary tour-de-force that brims with brilliance and takes a little-known historical event as a lens to examine truths about the human condition. Genre: historical fiction, literary fiction ![]()
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