Cora is a slave escaping the barbaric existence of life on a cotton plantation. As she passes from state to state, through the network of the underground railroad, hunted by slave-catchers, she discovers what seems like freedom is often just another form of bondage until . . . . . Whitehead has based his story on contemporary accounts but makes the Railroad an actual railway - a device which at first is distracting but ultimately it works. A searing, compulsive read.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 86 Autumn 2017 ) |
