![]() ![]() Actually, it’s about two high school girls who don’t have moms. ![]() The Mothers? Let me guess: this book is about moms. Underground Railroad was also a book club pick by Oprah. In August, we reviewed it and ran a long interview with Whitehead too. Maybe you saw how much we loved it on GQ. I don’t really pay attention to that stuff. Maybe you heard that Whitehead just won the National Book Award for Fiction, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the country. Just about every reviewer has been stunned by it. It wouldn’t be a stretch to dub The Underground Railroad the year’s most critically acclaimed book. I feel like I’ve been hearing a lot about this book. And let me tell you, for all the exploration of America’s deplorable past, The Underground Railroad feels like something wholly new. Many of his novels mash genres into a pulp and reconstitute them into something wholly new. It’s a literal railroad? Yeah, Whitehead plays on his childhood fascination of imagining that there was an underground train system leading slaves north to freedom. ![]()
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