“The Underground Railroad” is my first experience with Blind Date with a Book. I don’t know that I would have picked it up otherwise, but it’s definitely a good read.
I don’t have much to add to the 29,000+ reviews already on Goodreads or the more than 21,000 ratings and reviews on Amazon. Seriously, many, many people have expressed their opinions about this story.
The story is compelling in an “I-can’t-put-the-book-down” kind of way despite the unrelenting physical and psychological brutality. Secondary characters move in and out of Cora’s orbit only to be destroyed. Yet Cora persists. Several times Cora is cast into literal or figurative darkness and claws her way back toward the light of a new day or a new place in search of physical and psychological safety. And yet she persists.
The literal underground railroad criss-crossing states moving north is an interesting way to move characters from one reality to another (is it an express to your ultimate destination, on a spur, headed for a dead end or a cave in, or worse, has it been discovered).
I would recommend this book to adults and teens. I will put “The Underground Railroad” in my classroom library.
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