The Underground Railroad

Timely and timeless. Really needed right now.

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Colson Whitehead’s novel has won multiple prestigious awards; The New York Times named it the number one bestseller; literary critics and prominent public figures admire it. It’s a story about the fight against slavery in 19th-century America—and historical truth here is intertwined not only with fiction, but also with fantastic assumptions. The underground railroad was the name for the organization that helped Black people get from the slaveholding South to the North, but in Whitehead’s book it is a real railroad, with stations, trains, and engineers. And it is on it that young Cora—who escaped a cotton plantation in Georgia—travels across the country, overcoming harsh trials, and there she finds a path to salvation.