An American masterpiece.
Some books you read. This one you feel in your bones. Cora flees a Georgia plantation on Colson Whitehead’s reimagined railroad—real tracks running beneath Southern soil. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, this #1 New York Times Bestseller is waiting on our shelves.
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Some books you read. This one you feel in your bones.
Settle into your favorite reading chair, because The Underground Railroad is the kind of novel that pulls you in and refuses to let go. It’s the #1 New York Times Bestseller that went on to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award—a rare double honor that says everything you need to know. NPR called it “an American masterpiece,” and we couldn’t agree more.
Here’s the heart of it: Cora is a slave on a Georgia cotton plantation, an outcast even among her own people. When Caesar arrives from Virginia and tells her about the Underground Railroad, she takes the leap and runs.
But here’s Colson Whitehead’s brilliant twist. In his telling, the Underground Railroad isn’t a metaphor at all. It’s a literal network of tracks and tunnels running beneath the Southern soil. With each stop on Cora’s harrowing journey, she discovers a strange and unsettling version of her own world—a storytelling choice that turns history into something startling and new.
This is more than one woman’s desperate bid for freedom. It’s a powerful meditation on the history we all carry.
A pick for The New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century, and now the basis for the acclaimed Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.
It’s waiting on our shelves here in the cove. Stop in, let the salt air fade away, and find a story worth lingering over.
An American masterpiece.
Whitehead has fashioned a chilling, dramatic and deeply moving story... a potent, almost hallucinatory novel that leaves the reader with a devastating understanding of the terrible human costs of slavery.
An extraordinary book... It's grand and intimate, brutal and tender.
A potent, almost hallucinatory novel that leaves the reader with a devastating understanding of the terrible human costs of slavery... Whitehead's imaginative powers are on full display.
| Weight | 0.55 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.13 × 0.69 × 7.95 in |
| Book Author | Colson Whitehead |
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