![]() ![]() ![]() I always read part of one of his speeches to any class I am teaching the week of Martin Luther King Jr. That said, the book homes in relentlessly and accurately on the original sin of the United States-the one that haunts us to this day. Her narration never wavers it is the history and geography that are offset and unsteady. Whitehead's book is narrated by a woman, Cora, a slave who escapes the terror of the plantation where she labors. There are flights of outrageous fantasy-not least of which is that the underground railroad is not a metaphor: it is, literally, “an underground railroad.” I’m getting used to reading books with unreliable narrators, like Gone Girl and Girl on the Train (what’s it with all these “girls” who are really women?). The Underground Railroad is not a historical novel. Instead, magical realism meets black history written by a black man. I recently read Colson Whitehead’s newest book. ![]()
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