Vigil 9781526624345 Paperback

**THE INSTANTSUNDAY TIMESANDNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER**A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2026’The first must-read book of the year’Vogue’Resonates deeply in our fractious, selfish age’Independent’One of America’s most distinguished and original writers’SpectatorOrder the latest book from the Booker Prizewinning author ofLincoln in the Bardo a playful, wise, electric novel 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 nextWhat a lovely home I found myself plummeting toward. . .Not for the first time in fact, for the 343rd time Jill Doll Blaine plummets to earth, head-first, rear-up, to escort another soul into the afterlife. But her newest charge, powerful oil tycoon K.J. Boone, is unlike anyone she has encountered before.He refuses to be consoled, for he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold life, and the world is better for it isn’t it? As death approaches, crowds of people and animals worldly and otherworldly begin to emerge, all demanding a reckoning.Brimming with explosive imagination, George Saunders confronts the biggest issues of our time with his trademark warmth and wit, asking the essential question: who else could we be but exactly who we are?Vigilwas no. 10 in theSunday TimesHardback Fiction chart and no. 1 in theNew York TimesHardcover Fiction chart, w/e 1 February