Literary Fiction

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

A young enslaved woman escapes a Georgia plantation via a literalized Underground Railroad—an actual network of secret trains beneath the Southern soil. Cora's harrowing journey through different states reveals alternate Americas, each with its own racialized horrors. A National Book Award winner that reimagines American history through speculative realism.

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