Kat's Pick Book Club
Fri, Apr 03
|MonkeyKat Books
Join the discussion of Kat's book of the month!
Time & Location
Apr 03, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
MonkeyKat Books, 105 Carbonton Rd, Sanford, NC 27330, USA
About
Monthly Kat's Pick Book Club at MonkeyKat Books Presents Vigil by George Saunders.
Not for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion.
She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge, she soon discovers, isn’t like the others. The powerful K. J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold, epic life, and the world is better for it. Isn’t it?
Vigil transports us, careening, through the wild final evening of a complicated man. Visitors begin to arrive (worldly and otherworldly, alive…