Books like Lincoln in the Bardo
In February 1862, President Lincoln visits the crypt of his eleven-year-old son Willie, and a chorus of ghosts who refuse to admit they are dead watch the boy linger in the bardo.
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Tokyo Ueno Station
The ghost of Kazu, a labourer from Fukushima who spent his last years among the homeless of Tokyo's Ueno Park, looks back on a life of work that began in the same year as the emperor's.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Weeks after his wife's sudden death, a Ted Hughes scholar in a London flat is visited by Crow, who says he will stay with him and his two young sons until they no longer need him.
The Lovely Bones
A fourteen-year-old girl murdered in a Pennsylvania cornfield narrates, from an in-between heaven, the decade her family spends coming apart around her empty place.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
In 2016, Finn, a suspended history teacher visiting his dying brother in a New York hospice, ends up on a strange road trip through the South with his ex-girlfriend Lily, who has recently died.
No One Is Talking About This
A poet's life is split between a pre-internet childhood and the social media hellscape of the present, told in fragments that capture the vertigo of the timeline.
Damned
Madison Spencer, the thirteen-year-old daughter of film stars, wakes up in Hell, which turns out to be run like a corrupt, bureaucratic high school, and sets out to make the best of it.
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
A war photographer wakes up dead in Colombo and has seven days to solve his own murder while navigating the Sri Lankan afterlife.
The Lantern of Lost Memories
In an old-fashioned photo studio between life and death, Mr Hirasaka helps the newly departed look back over their lives through a lantern of memories and step back into one moment to photograph it again.
Pedro Páramo
Juan Preciado goes to the village of Comala to find the father he never knew, Pedro Páramo, and finds a town full of murmuring voices, where the living and the dead are hard to tell apart.
Here Goes Nothing
A murdered man watches from a chaotic afterlife as his killer moves in with his pregnant widow, while a pandemic sweeps the world he left behind.
Tenth of December
Ten stories that veer between absurd comedy and great tenderness, from a boy's rescue attempt on a frozen pond to a medieval theme park and a family that buys living women as lawn ornaments, all about trying to be decent in broken systems.
Parakeet
The week before her wedding, a woman known as the Bride is visited by her dead grandmother in the form of a parakeet, who tells her to find the estranged brother she has not seen in years.