206 pages / 10 hrs, 43 mins
"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood--where even great pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned--Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted." (from the publisher)
This is a topic near and dear to my heart. In grade school we were asked to write about someone we admired and I chose Harriet Tubman. She is still high on my list of heroes! That said, I didn't think the book was particularly well written especially for a book that won the Pulitzer. Also, in my opinion, transferring the metaphorical railroad into an actual railroad didn't really add to the story. I gave it 2.5 (rounded to 3) stars out of 5.
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