The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host ACE Book Discussion Day Monday, April 23, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Suburban Temple—Kol Ami (22401 Chagrin Blvd). This year’s discussion will be led by Steven Pinkerton, full-time lecturer for the Department of English, and the book will be Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
About the book
Winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize and universally hailed by critics as one of the most riveting books of 2017, Lincoln in the Bardo is by turns quirky, funny and heartbreaking. The style is a hybrid of drama, biography, history, and fantasy woven skillfully into a narrative about a dark chapter in the life of Abraham Lincoln.
“The saddest man in the world” confronts the death of his beloved son Willie, while the Civil War rages, ripping the country apart, the preservation of the Union by no means certain. As he repeatedly visits his dead son in the cemetery, Lincoln is observed by a host of lively spirits trapped in the Bardo, a Tibetan Buddhist name for the transition period between death and rebirth.