The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club) : A Novel (Paperback)

from tstan

So very good- there's so much to digest with this book. The writing makes it a fast read, but it's so full and richly written. As Cora escapes from the Georgia plantation she was born on, she travels on the Underground Railroad, literally. She stops in different southern states, with varying degr...

from porch_reader

Whitehead's latest novel has gotten a good deal of attention. For me, this was a solid historical novel about the challenges of escaping from slavery. But what set it apart was Cora, a richly developed character who illustrates the potential and limits of human agency. It was because I cared so m...

from JJbooklvr

Sure to be one of the most talked about books of the year, the author is not shy at all throwing a bright light into one of the darkest corners of our history. There are times reading that are like driving by an accident where you don't want to look, but can't help yourself. Then after you don't ...

from Cariola

The Underground Railroad was just short-listed for the National Book Award--and boy, does it deserve it! Whitehead focuses mainly on the story of Cora, a slave born on a Georgia cotton plantation. He begins with a brief overview of her grandparents' kidnapping from Africa and her mother Mabel's e...

from VaniceD

Beautiful and brutal. Some of the sentences stopped me cold.