Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Pulitzer Prize winner for 2017 (among other
awards), Whitehead drew me in and kept me believing in his alternative history
novel. Using history, true and altered, and magical realism, he follows two
slaves escaping in the 1800’s. I found that the gritty truth of the history of
slavery mixed with the magical underground railroad ( a real underground
train!) helped to balance my emotional response as a reader. The truth of
history is too brutal for hope. Whitehead’s novel allows hope and magic.
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