Vigil: a novel by George Saunders
How it starts: A spirit of some sort visits an oil tycoon on his deathbed. What happens next is that Saunders is a particularly brilliant writer who is able to imaginatively embody a conceit, no matter how fantastical. This time, he imagines a kind of ushering angel tasked with shepherding someone completely unlike herself, eliciting all sorts of questions and sympathies (and not a few irritations) along the way, all done through dialogue that veers wildly from the hilarious to the heartbreaking, often sentence by sentence. It’s a wild ride, well-worth taking, covering way more ground than its mere 192 pages would suggest. Get Vigil: a novel here: https://a.co/d/09S6tnyD
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