Lincoln in the Bardo -- George Saunders

<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE <p/>The <b>"devastatingly moving" (<i>People</i>) </b>first novel from the author of <i>Tenth of December</i> a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented<br></b><br><b><b><b><b>Named One of <i>Paste</i><b>'</b>s Best Novels of the Decade - Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by <i>The Washington Post, USA Today, </i>and Maureen Corrigan, NPR - One of <i>Time</i>'s Ten Best Novels of the Year - A <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book <b><b><b><b>- <b><b><b><b>One of <i>O: The Oprah Magazine</i>'s Best Books of the Year</b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b> </b><br></b><br></b></b>February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president says at the time. "God has called him home." Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy's body. <p/>From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of f