Join our October Book Group in reading the acclaimed new novel by Colson Whitehead, Underground Railroad. In this New York Times best-selling novel, the Underground Railroad is no longer a metaphor, but an actual network of underground tracks for slaves who dare not risk an escape to the North. The narrative follows Cora, who flees the Georgia plantation where she is enslaved and embarks on an unpredictable, harrowing journey through various stops, all the while being hunted by a notorious slave catcher. In his unflincing novel, Whitehead uses fiction in remarkable ways, offering new and piercing insights into America’s era of legalized slavery.

Underground Railroad can be purchased ($26.95) or borrowed from the Grace Farms Library.