Chronicles a young slaves adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhoodwhere greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him.

As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one womans will to escape the horrors of bondageand a powerful meditation on the history we all share.

#1 New York Times Bestseller. Pulitzer Prize Winner. National Book Award Winner. One of The New York Timess 10 Best Books of the 21st Century.