The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead • 2016
Devastation Rating
historical injustice trauma survival
Our Take
Whitehead makes the Underground Railroad literal — a network of tunnels and trains — and the surrealism deepens the horror rather than mitigating it. Cora runs and every station offers a different flavour of damnation. America is surveyed state by state as an engine of racist violence. The dreamlike quality makes it harder to dismiss.
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