Two Way Street

George Saunders' Novel Takes On Abraham Lincoln And A New Kind of Afterlife


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Today on “Two Way Street,” we revisit our conversation with author George Saunders . He spoke with us in March about his first full-length novel “ Lincoln in the Bardo ,” which takes place during the first 24-hours after Willie Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln’s 11-year old son, dies. Willie is interred in a Georgetown cemetery, Oak Hill, where he becomes trapped in the bardo—the Tibetan Buddhist concept of a transitional state in between death and rebirth. Saunders was inspired by the bardo
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Two Way StreetBy Georgia Public Broadcasting