Book - "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead

Description: Join us to discuss the 2016 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.

Where:  Teaism, 400 8th St NW, Washington, DC 20004

Metro: Archives/Navy Memorial

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