Book Group: Monday, November 29, 1:30pm. “Lincoln in the Bardo,“ by George Saunders.

“Lincoln in the Bardo” is a novel based on the true story of the death of William Wallace “Willie” Lincoln, a son of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1862, Willie Lincoln died of typhoid fever at the age of 11. The novel opens in the bardo, which is an intermediary state between life and the afterlife.