Read/discuss Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
Join our monthly book club for an engaging discussion of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
New members are always welcome. 12 copies of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders is available for check out from the Chevy Chase Library service desk one month prior to the book club meeting date. Please stop by the Chevy Chase Library to grab one of the 12 copies. If we run out of copies, you'd like to pick up a copy at another branch, or you prefer a different book format, you may request a copy here: https://glac.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S185C1622355.
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.
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