BOOK CLUB: George Saunders points us in the direction of kindness

BOOK CLUB: George Saunders points us in the direction of kindness

In the face of news that grows ever more difficult to comprehend or accept, George Saunders’s Buddhism-infused kindness offers an alternative to free-falling outrage, and Vigil — Saunders’s second novel and our February Ink Book Club pick — is a sort of literary Rorschach test, with each reader deriving something different from it. In this past week’s discussion of the novel, one of our Book Club members, Terrence Green, offered an incisive asse…