I’m the first person to say enough on the canon of books out there about Abraham Lincoln. Don’t we know it all by now? Then Charyn comes out with a first person narrative and I gave it a 10 page chance and here we are. I’ll work on a better annotation-but for all extents and purposes this is a fictionalized biography of Abraham Lincoln. What makes it different is the feeling of what he might have been like as just a guy. Real and raw, making terrible jokes and dear god, the sex. But, it succeeds and gives the reader someone other than just the historical icon he has become.

This one lingers.