The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club) A Novel

This Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel chronicles the harrowing journey of Cora, a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia, as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora, an outcast even among her fellow slaves, seizes the opportunity to escape with a recent arrival named Caesar after he tells her of the Underground Railroad. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious, fantastical conception, the Underground Railroad is not a metaphor but a literal subterranean network of actual tracks, tunnels, engineers, and conductors. Their flight is immediately fraught with danger when Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture them, making her a wanted fugitive pursued relentlessly by a notorious slave catcher named Ridgeway. As Cora embarks on a journey state by state, she encounters different worlds and strange yet familiar iterations of her own reality at each stop, in an odyssey that is both a thrilling adventure tale and a powerful meditation on America’s brutal history and the tenacious will to escape bondage.

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