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The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

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Jul 27, 2017 Etchison rated it really liked it

This was good. Really good. Interesting and disturbing and sad and engaging and thought provoking.

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Jan 04, 2019 Cheryl rated it really liked it

Shelves: book-group, black-authors

3.5 stars rounded to 4.
I wanted to like this 2016 National Book Award and 2017 Pulitzer more than I did, but having said that, I’m glad our book group chose this book and will look forward to talking about it at the end of this month. It has a place in the novels of slavery narratives and not surprisingly is a heartbreaking, violent and a thrilling read as a runaway slave Cora is hunted throughout the book with the slave catcher Ridgeway ever at her heels.

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Jan 27, 2019 Holly rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, historic, lady-literature, 2019

I like Whitehead's writing. I am always left with vignettes that I remember years after the fact. ...more

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Mar 29, 2017 Brittany rated it really liked it

Technically I took a week to read this, but really I devoured most of this book today. It’s a quick read in that the tension compounds as the story progresses and I didn’t find a moment where I felt comfortable leaving Cora to go do my regular 2018 life things. The episodic nature of the plot and grim historical adventures verging on magical realism reminded me a lot of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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