George SaundersLiterary Fiction · Essays·b. 1958
Vigil
Synopsis
In his first novel since the Booker Prize–winning Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders follows Jill Blaine — known as Doll — a woman no longer among the living whose task is to escort the newly dead from Earth toward whatever waits beyond. When she must usher a dying oil executive across that threshold, Saunders brings his singular moral imagination to bear on judgment, mercy, and the reckoning of a single human life.
How it reads
- Writing3.0
- Impact3.0
- Characters4.0
- Plot2.0
- Atmosphere3.0
Prose complexity 7/10