Book Group: The Underground Railroad
This novel by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead, follows the journey of Cora, a third-generation slave, as she uses a literal underground railroad (in this alternative history) to escape slavery in Georgia. The Group will meet on Sunday, February 23rd at a Center City home. Space is limited to 8 people.
About the book:
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood - where 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.
- #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
- PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
- NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
"An American masterpiece" (NPR)
One of the New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century
About the Author:
COLSON WHITEHEAD is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.
Host / Lead Organizer: Susan Robinson
Date: Sunday, February 23rd at 3:00 pm.
Location: Address will be included in confirmation email.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Limited to 8 people.
Where:
Center City
Locust St
Philadelphia, PA 19102
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