Book Details
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Book Name | Vigil |
| Author | George Saunders |
| Publisher | Random House Audio |
| Release Date | January 27, 2026 |
| Audiobook Duration | 5 hours and 32 minutes |
Book Summary
From the #1 New York Times bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo comes a bold and imaginative novel set during the final hours of a powerful oil executive’s life, as he stands at the threshold between this world and the next.
Jill “Doll” Blaine is no stranger to death. Since her own passing, she has performed her solemn duty 343 times—descending from above to guide souls through their final moments and into the afterlife. Her arrivals are always dramatic, her presence usually comforting. But this time is different.
Her latest charge is K. J. Boone, a wealthy oil company CEO lying on his deathbed in his grand mansion. Unlike the others Doll has guided, Boone refuses consolation. He believes he has lived a triumphant, meaningful life—one that made the world better. Or did it?
As night falls, Boone’s vigil becomes increasingly surreal. Visitors pour into his room, both living and dead, human and otherworldly, each demanding acknowledgment and reckoning. Birds swarm the space. A black calf wanders through the room. Figures from distant lands and buried histories emerge, including former business associates with unsettling plans for Boone’s legacy beyond death.
Moving swiftly and unpredictably through memory, conscience, and consequence, Vigil becomes a reckoning not only for one man, but for an entire system built on power, profit, and exploitation. With wit, compassion, and boundless imagination, George Saunders confronts urgent questions about corporate greed, environmental destruction, moral responsibility, and the possibility of forgiveness.
At once playful and profound, this electrifying novel explores life and death, guilt and absolution, and what it truly means to be judged—by others, by history, and by oneself—when time finally runs out.
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