VIGIL by George Saunders (Audiobook)(Fiction)

VIGIL by George Saunders (Audiobook)(Fiction)
Author: George Saunders
Full title: Vigil: A Novel
Length: unabridged; 5 hours 32 minutes
Release date: February 3, 2026
Genre/Categories: Fiction; Literary; Satire; Supernatural
Jill “Doll” Blaine, a spectral guide who has comforted 343 souls at death’s threshold since her own passing, materializes at the bedside of unrepentant oil tycoon K. J. Boone, who boasts of his “big, bold” life and refuses consolation. As Boone’s final night unfolds, surreal visitors arrive—birds swarming the room, a black calf on the love seat, a villager from a drought‑stricken region, ghostly cronies plotting his afterlife in oil deals—clashing with a nearby wedding party and forcing a chaotic reckoning. Saunders weaves his signature wit and imagination into a meditation on greed, capitalism, environmental ruin, mortality, and the elusive chance for absolution.