u003cbu003e#1 u003ciu003eNew York Times u003c/iu003eBestseller - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Winner of the National Book Award - Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction - Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize u003cpu003e One of the Best books of the Year: u003ciu003eThe New York Times, The Washington Post, u003c/iu003eNPRu003ciu003e, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, HuffPost, Esquire, Minneapolis Star Tribuneu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbu003eu003ciu003e u003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbu003eLook for Whitehead's acclaimed new novel, u003ciu003eThe Nickel Boys, u003c/iu003eavailable now u003c/bu003e u003cpu003eCora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood--where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. u003ciu003eThe Underground Railroad u003c/iu003eis both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage--and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.
