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SUMMARY:Let's Talk About It
DESCRIPTION:The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead\n\nA book discussi
 on series moderated by Annaliese Jakimides. This year's series focuses on 
 select National Book Award winners. To obtain a copy please contact the li
 brary desk. This program is free and all are welcome.\n\nCora is a young s
 lave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow A
 fricans\, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And
  so when Caesar\, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia\, urges h
 er to join him on the Underground Railroad\, she seizes the opportunity an
 d escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception\, the Under
 ground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a se
 cret 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 s
 top. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era
 \, he weaves in the saga of our nation\, from the brutal abduction of Afri
 cans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Rail
 road is 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.\n\n&nb
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