The Underground Railroad

📚 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Cora, a young woman enslaved on a Georgia plantation, seizes a chance to escape when a fellow enslaved man named Caesar tells her about the Underground Railroad. In Colson Whitehead’s reimagining, the railroad is real, with tracks, tunnels, and conductors who risk their lives to carry people to safety.

As Cora travels from state to state, she encounters communities that offer very different visions of freedom. With a relentless slave catcher on her trail, she has to decide whom she can trust and where she might finally build a life of her own.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Underground Railroad blends historical fiction with imaginative storytelling to explore the brutality of slavery and the courage it takes to claim your freedom.