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I think this excellent book should come with a warning sticker that says "This is literary fiction not popular historical fiction, and contains magical realism and a complicated plot line". Do not read this if you want the facts of the Underground Railroad but if you want the "feeling" of slavery and escape you could find nothing better. It's sad, infuriating, and ultimately triumphant. Also I enjoyed the fact that although there are some righteous white people in this book. The enslaved people
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I liked the book but I had a hard time suspending reality to love it. Having the Underground Railroad be a literal rather than just a figurative railroad disturbed me. I saw my first station when I was 10 at Robert Todd Lincoln’s summer home in Vermont. I also live near what was an active part today. I also could not suspend reality with South Carolina. I do like the way he made the characters come to life. I imagine most of what happened Whitehead took from real life accounts. I think Whitehead
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The Underground Railroad as a machine that travels rails in underground tunnels, just as I pictured it as a child. I remember being well into my teen years before my father explained the reality to me. The characters of Cora, and her cast of supporting actors are well developed. I routed for them, feared for them and thought about them when I put the book down at night. We cannot turn a blind eye to the impact on the events of today that the varied and evil sculpting hands of slavery had. Brilli
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