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A worthy literary endeavor that left me underwhelmed

December 29, 2017 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Underground Railroad, was another Mocha Girls Read book club selection. The novel follows Cora on her Odyssey-like journey to escape slavery traveling a magical realistic underground railroad. “Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor – if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative.” – page 80 It begins in Africa following the first slaves as they were stolen and brought over to America. From […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: #CannonballRead9, african american history, American Slavery, Black History, cbr9, Colson Whitehead, Fiction, historical fiction, historical research, Pulitzer Prize, Slavery, The Underground Railroad

teresaelectro's CBR9 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: #CannonballRead9, african american history, American Slavery, Black History, cbr9, Colson Whitehead, Fiction, historical fiction, historical research, Pulitzer Prize, Slavery, The Underground Railroad ·
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