Colson Whitehead: "The Underground Railroad" | Talks at Google

[close] Colson Whitehead, National Book Award winner, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, MacArthur fellow, and New York Times bestselling author stops by Google to talk about his book, The Underground Railroad. Whitehead’s novel is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Join Cora, an escaped young woman on her attempts to find freedom from an antebellum cotton plantation in Georgia.

Read an interview with Colson Whitehead on Google Play Editorial: https://goo.gl/Fvo0Ta

Awards: The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club

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