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For those of us who fell in love with George Saunders’ writing via Lincoln in the Bardo: a new ghostly adventure. Jill “Doll” Blaine, deceased in the 1970s, at age 22, is an angelic comforter of souls who need to cross over.

Her charge this time is K. J. Boone, a stubborn oil tycoon on his deathbed, who refuses to go.
Many souls who were negatively affected by Boone’s actions in life come to help him along. And take their pound of flesh. But the tyrant resists. “We are delicate. And exist at the whim of the moment.”

Equal parts indictment of self-serving decisions that produced our current climate crisis and forgiveness of our human nature, Vigil is a complex reckoning of inevitability balanced with redemption.