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Barbara asked this question about The Underground Railroad:
Does anyone like that the author wrote the railroad as a physical, operating one? I felt it unnecessary and beyond the scope of possibility.
April Kriha I hated it. I think the hopeful idea that enough people came around to build a real underground railroad and believed it in enough to protect and die …moreI hated it. I think the hopeful idea that enough people came around to build a real underground railroad and believed it in enough to protect and die for it is a fantasy. It makes the idea that slavery existed in such a world hard to believe. In addition to the "real" railroad, it appears that even the slavery experienced in each of the states (i.e. the North Carolina experience was something like Oregon, but different) is a work of fiction, not historical fiction. I couldn't get past it.(less)
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The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
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