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Lincoln in the Bardo
In 1862, a president's young son dies and is laid to rest in a Washington cemetery. His spirit lingers among the other ghosts, a chorus of voices that tries to coax him onward.
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- 2017
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- medium
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- Standalone
Read this if you want an inventive, quick-moving book made of many voices, and do not mind being moved.
Skip this if you prefer conventional narration; it reads like a script with quoted fragments and ghostly overlapping speakers.
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