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~ Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 2017, the National Book Award for Fiction - 2016, the Arthur C. Clarke Award - 2017, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction - 2017, the NAIBA Book of the Year for Fiction - 2017, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction - 2017, and the Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction - 2016
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia where life is hell for slaves, but especially bad for Cora who is an outcast even among her fellows. When a recent arrival from Virginia tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape, but matters do not go as planned . . .
Colson Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era, with a narrative that seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
"A wonderful reminder of what great literature is supposed to do: open our eyes, challenge us, and leave us changed by the end.” -- Esquire