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From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum SouthCora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood - where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned - Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor - engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.
About the Author
COLSON WHITEHEAD is the #1 bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for and , which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City. is the first book in The Harlem Trilogy. The second, , will be published in 2023.
