Vigil by George Saunders

George Saunders
Vigil
Paperback, Published in 2026
192 pages
Bloomsbury
Like new condition

The latest novel from bestselling, award winning, witty, hilarious and poignant author George Saunders. Jill "Doll" Blaine comes carening down to her latest and most challenging deathbed victim. She's an afterlife usher, a consoler, the ultimate comfort in helping those pass over but inside an ornate decorative mansion lies K.J Boone, powerful oil tycoon, father, husband and certified asshole. Both his life's mistakes and his memories bring up ghosts with personal quarrels that flash past whilst Jill also is forced to finally face her own unsolved troubles. Saunders takes on yet another ghost-grief story that raises the big questions of our time, the effect of greedy capitalism, the environmental cataclysms and how someone responsible for such evil reacts at the end point of absolution.