Lincoln in the Bardo

Lincoln in the Bardo won the 2018 Audie award for Best Audiobook of the Year for which it is well deserving. Many members of the 166 member cast are familiar names.

President Lincoln's 11-year-old son Willy died of typhoid fever. Lincoln in the Bardo is the story of his death told by the dead people in the cemetery where Willy was laid to rest. That it is being told by dead people isn't apparent to the reader at first and it causes a little bit of confusion until you finally realize it. It is quite literary and quite unusual at the same time.