The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (O
An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. 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.