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George Saunders
2 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with George Saunders: A Reading Guide
Where to start with George Saunders — whether to begin with Tenth of December, Lincoln in the Bardo, or CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. A complete reading guide.
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Books Like Lincoln in the Bardo: Grief, the Afterlife, and Experimental Form
George Saunders's novel of Abraham Lincoln grieving his dead son in a graveyard full of ghosts refusing to move on won the Booker Prize and redefined what a novel can be. These books share its formal experimentation, its tenderness toward the dead, and its belief that grief is political.
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