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<b>From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South<br></b><br> Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, and they plot their escape. Matters do not go as planned âEUR" Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her âEUR" but they manage to find a station and head north.<br><br> In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is not a metaphor âEUR" a secret network of tracks and tunnels has been built beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, where both find work in a city that at first seems like a haven. But the cityâEUR?s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens âEUR" and Ridgeway, the relentless slave-catcher sent to find her, arrives in town. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing journey, state-by-state, seeking true freedom.<br><br> Like Gulliver, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey âEUR" Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in states in the pre-Civil War era. <i>The Underground Railroad</i> is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage, and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.