Who Needs Fantasy When You’ve Got Drama?
You all know that the famed Underground Railroad back in slave days wasn’t really a railroad, right? No train cars, no tracks? If that’s how you understood it, you are correct . In Colson Whitehead’s novel, The Underground Railroad, his heroine Cora heads north, speeding on train cars in deep-dug tunnels. This lends a fantasy feel to the book. I hoped for something closer to [...]