MJ Hammond
HPPR Radio Readers Book Club ContributorMJ Hammond came to Texas from the east coast in 2003. She retired from Amarillo College in 2023, and is now playing tennis as much as she can! When she’s not on the court, she’s traveling with her husband to visit her kids in New Jersey and Colorado. A recent quote from MJ, “Life is good!”
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In George Saunders’ novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, the death of President Lincoln’s son, Willie, propels the reader into the world of the bardo – a place often misunderstood in the Christian lexicon as purgatory, but here more appropriately explained as the place our spirits reside between birth and karmic rebirth.
