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Vigil - George Saunders

By George Saunders

Release Date: 2026-01-27

Genre: Literary Fiction

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā€¢ ā€œAfter his spectacular Lincoln in the Bardo, Saunders returns . . . with a new novel even more spectacular than the last.ā€ā€”Los Angeles Times

A ā€œdaringā€ (Time) novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prizeā€“winning author of A Swim in a Pond in the Rain and Tenth of December, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next

ā€œVibrant, fiendishly clever . . . Vigil is pure Saunders: the death of empathy, he insists, is greatly exaggerated.ā€ā€”The Boston Globe

Not for the first time, Jill ā€œDollā€ Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion.

She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge, she soon discovers, isnā€™t like the others. The powerful K. J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold, epic life, and the world is better for it. Isnā€™t it?

Vigil transports us, careening, through the wild final evening of a complicated man. Visitors begin to arrive (worldly and otherworldly, alive and dead), clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying manā€™s room; a black calf grazes on the love seat; a man from a distant, drought-ravaged village materializes; two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Booneā€™s postdeath future.

With the wisdom, playfulness, and explosive imagination weā€™ve come to expect, George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our timeā€”the menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progressā€”and, in the process, spins a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the thorny question of absolution.
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Vigil - George Saunders

By George Saunders

Release Date: 2026-01-27

Genre: Literary Fiction

4 (133 ratings)
Read Download
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā€¢ ā€œAfter his spectacular Lincoln in the Bardo, Saunders returns . . . with a new novel even more spectacular than the last.ā€ā€”Los Angeles Times

A ā€œdaringā€ (Time) novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prizeā€“winning author of A Swim in a Pond in the Rain and Tenth of December, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next

ā€œVibrant, fiendishly clever . . . Vigil is pure Saunders: the death of empathy, he insists, is greatly exaggerated.ā€ā€”The Boston Globe

Not for the first time, Jill ā€œDollā€ Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion.

She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge, she soon discovers, isnā€™t like the others. The powerful K. J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold, epic life, and the world is better for it. Isnā€™t it?

Vigil transports us, careening, through the wild final evening of a complicated man. Visitors begin to arrive (worldly and otherworldly, alive and dead), clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying manā€™s room; a black calf grazes on the love seat; a man from a distant, drought-ravaged village materializes; two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Booneā€™s postdeath future.

With the wisdom, playfulness, and explosive imagination weā€™ve come to expect, George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our timeā€”the menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progressā€”and, in the process, spins a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the thorny question of absolution.
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