![]() ![]() This story is not told by Abraham Lincoln rather, it is told by two alternating choruses: the fictional ghosts who haunt that cemetery–principally Hans Vollman, Roger Bevins III, and the Reverend Everly Thomas–and the real voices of the past and present giving a semi-factual narrative from primary and secondary sources. And so, more than once, he returned to the place where Willie was entombed and held his son’s body. ![]() Between the loss of his son and his struggles to keep his nation united as the Civil War intensified, he was at a loss for what to do. 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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