George Saunders to become one of the few “bettors’ favorites” to actually win the Booker Prize, for Lincoln In the Bardo (Random House/Bloomsbury UK). He is the second American to claim the award — and the second in a row, after Paul Beatty’s victory a year ago for The Sellout. The judges said, “The form and style of this utterly original novel, reveals a witty, intelligent, and deeply moving narrative. This tale of the haunting and haunted souls in the afterlife of Abraham Lincoln’s young son paradoxically creates a vivid and lively evocation of the characters that populate this other […]