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The Underground Railroad
by Colson WhiteheadCora escapes a Georgia plantation on a railroad that runs, literally, beneath the soil — each state she reaches a different vision of America.
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Colson Whitehead
American novelist; The Underground Railroad received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.
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Colson Whitehead is an American novelist.
The Underground Railroad imagines the historical network of safe houses as a literal railroad beneath the American South, following Cora’s escape from a Georgia plantation. The novel received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.
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