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THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - COLSON WHITEHEAD KAR...

#1 New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the National Book Award
• Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction • Longlisted for the Man Booker
Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times  The Washington Post  NPR  The
Boston Globe  The Seattle Times  HuffPost  Esquire  Minneapolis Star Tribune Look for
Whitehead's acclaimed new novel  The Nickel Boys  available now! Cora is a young slave on a
cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans  she is on the cusp of
womanhood-where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar  a slave who has recently arrived from
Virginia  urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad  she seizes the opportunity and
escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception  the Underground Railroad is no
mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels
beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next 
encountering  like Gulliver  strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As
Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era  he weaves in the saga of
our nation  from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present
day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the
horrors of bondage-and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.

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