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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.
Andrea Weeks The author intended for the book to have a magical realism -- even each stop on the train -- each state -- isn't historically rooted in pre-Civil War …moreThe author intended for the book to have a magical realism -- even each stop on the train -- each state -- isn't historically rooted in pre-Civil War events. He meant to take many different facets of racism in American history and make them out to be stops on a literal underground train.

If you find the Fresh Air interview, the book is meant to be a parallel to Gulliver's Travels, albiet with a more optimistic end.(less)
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The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
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