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New episode, featuring a chat with Colson Whitehead about his 2016 novel ‘The Underground Railroad‘. Amazing and shattering book which I will reread, and watch the Amazon screen adaptation again too.
Link here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-book-review/id120315179?i=100066298126...

I have read reviews of this book for years. My heart breaks for all who had no choice but the live this life. My tears fell more than once. This is a very important book to read!

A genre-defying, time-condensing novel that uses the symbol of the Underground Railroad as a framework for the often horrific experiences of enslaved Black Americans. A deeply unsettling and effective book, and an important read.
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I wanted to read this book for years! And I finally did. This book was amazing I didnt't know what should I expect but it was even better.

The writing here is fast paced and leaves little behind as the reader is pushed, pulled, and torn from one slave state to another. This has history walking lockstep with an engaging plot and tough protagonist.

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A genre bending historical fiction book with a twist. Where the underground is an actual train and each stop is a different state but somehow also a completely different feeling almost like different worlds. Whitehead is a masterful storyteller and this is a modern classic you should read!

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My book for February was this one! Colson Whitehead is one of the best authors of historical fiction books. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors of black peoples in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day.

So glad to have finally gotten to this one.
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They moved through the tall plants.....Their speed made them giddy. The impossibility of it. Their fear called after them even if no one else did. They had six hours until their disappearance was discovered and another one or two before the posses reached where they were now. But fear was already in pursuit, as it had been every day on the plantation, and it matched their pace.