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The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner)

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

Exhilarating, genre-bending, sharp-eyed and entertaining: Colson Whitehead's worldbuilding is incomparable, and his novels always deliver an incredible reading experience.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.

One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years

The basis for the acclaimed original Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.


Cora is a slave...

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