{"product_id":"the-underground-railroad","title":"The Underground Railroad","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - \u003c\/b\u003ePULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - \"An American masterpiece\" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 10 Best Books of the 21st Century - A \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Fiction Book of the Century - A \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe basis for the acclaimed original Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCora 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad\u003c\/i\u003e is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage--and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943472234727,"sku":"9780345804327","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_96203f67-2f7a-4607-a155-a9e5bcede145.jpg?v=1775323574","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-underground-railroad","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}