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SUMMARY:Wednesday Night Readers
UID:16985
DTSTAMP:20260422T210900Z
DTSTART:20260219T003000Z
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LOCATION:Byron Public Library District, 100 S Washington St., Byron, IL 61
 010, United States
ROOM: Classroom 1
DESCRIPTION: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 gr
 eater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived fr
 om Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes
  the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenio
 us 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 th
 e next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of he
 r own world at each stop.As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors o
 f 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. The
  Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will t
 o escape the horrors of bondage - and a powerful meditation on the history
  we all share. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the libra
 ry. 
URL:https://www.byronlibrary.org/event/wednesday-night-readers-16985
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