![]() ![]() Some remembered it being yellow-red, while others claimed the night was moonless with foreboding, heavy clouds. On a cold February night in 1862, guests arriving at a formal White House reception reported that the moon shone golden. However, the most significant aspect of the book is the lesson that the lies we tell ourselves imprison us in our falsehoods and distort our true nature. The most salient aspect of the book is the cacophonous chorus of narrators whose words build the bardo-in Tibetan Buddhism, the space between this life and the next. ![]() George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo is the 2017 Man Booker prize–winning work of fiction, inspired by the true story of a president’s display of sorrow. ![]()
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