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Lincoln in the Bardo

: A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforg

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George Saunders (3)

“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface it seemed every person was different, this was not true. At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end. We must try to see one anothe…”

— George Saunders, amazon.com

Tagged: Grief, Mourning, Death, Lincoln In The Bardo, Stoicism

“His mind was freshly inclined towards sorrow; toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged, neglecte…”

— George Saunders, amazon.com

Tagged: Grief, Mourning, Death, Lincoln In The Bardo, Stoicism

“All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness. (So why grieve? The worst of it, for him, is over.) Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing. Only there is nothing left to do.”

— George Saunders, amazon.com

Tagged: Grief, Mourning, Death, Lincoln In The Bardo