I'm late to sing the praises of The Underground Railroad. It's already won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction, AND been an Oprah book selection. And it deserves every award it has received. It's beautifully written, the author has created wonderful characters, and the story is gut-wrenching.
The plot primarily follows Cora, a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia, who escapes with another slave, Caesar. As she works her way to South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Indiana, she is determined to continue to work towards freedom despite a series of violent acts and constant fear. The underground railroad was her way of moving to different locations, and the people who helped her often sacrificed their homes and even their lives for the cause.
Highly recommend this one, BT, if you haven't already read and loved it. -June
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I hope I recommended highly, but I think perhaps your book club already had this on their list when I read and raved! It is, indeed, a splendid work of art.
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