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Apr 14, 2021
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BOOKS I READ: The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. The harrowing tale of three generations of women snared in slavery’s degradation and misery. Cora, the granddaughter, prodded by her friend, Caesar, decides to escape the Randall plantation in Georgia. He’s the one with a connection to the underground railroad. Thus begins her life on the run. Unfortunately for Cora, her adventures lead to oases that turn out to be mirages obscuring violence and heartbreak. Besides slavery, the book’s other villain is Ridgeway, a blacksmith’s son who becomes a slave catcher. His hunts for runaways rotting him from the inside out.
NB: using Medium’s shortform posts to chain my recent reads. Go to previous book:
