Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel The Underground Railroad combines elements of historical fiction and magic realism to tell the story of Cora, a girl enslaved on a Georgia plantation who runs away in search of freedom. A New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club pick, the book has been adapted into an Amazon Prime miniseries. The Underground Railroad explores multiple aspects of systemic racism in America in the nineteenth century.

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