Underground Railroad, The

Here Is The Pulitzer Prizewinning National Book Awardwinning Oprahanointed 1 New York Times Bestselling Novel That Explores Americas Troubled Racial Past As Only Colson Whitehead Canand Has Become An Instant Classic 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 Whiteheads 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 Womanhoodwhere 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 Whiteheads 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 Recreates The Terrors Of The Antebellum Era He Weaves In The Saga Of Our Nation From The Brutal Abduction Of Africans To The Unfu