Life, Death, and What Comes After: On Lincoln in the Bardo

Join us as we step into George Saunders’ Booker Prize-winning novel, Lincoln in the Bardo—a work that blends history, grief, and the supernatural into an unforgettable meditation on love, loss, and what lingers after death. Together, we explore how Saunders captures Abraham Lincoln’s private mourning, the chorus of ghostly voices that shape the novel’s unique form, and the larger questions it raises about mortality, compassion, and the human longing for connection beyond the grave.Pull up a chair by the fire as we reflect on how Lincoln in the Bardo illuminates both the intimacy of personal sorrow and the universality of what comes after.