Saunders decided to explore Lincoln's deep grief. George Saunders started the book with this premise: after the death of his son to typhoid fever in 1862, Abraham Lincoln visited Willie's crypt and held the dead boy in his arms at least two times. In addition our book group members selected Lincoln in the Bardo as one of our book selections for 2018, guaranteeing that I would actually read it carefully in preparation for the group discussion. That alone made me want to read the book. In other words, it ended up on more best-books lists than any other book published in 2017. Lincoln in the Bardo earned the most points. Late in 2017 a fellow blogger analyzed all of the end-of-the-year-best-books lists.
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