Now, after having re-read the novel twice, I’m willing to say what I think. I felt my take on the book was out of sync from what others had written. Neal Ferguson, however, did review it for BWS.
I read The Underground Railroad back in 2016 but did not review it at that time. To my way of thinking, Whitehead has written a roadmap, or travel guide, if you will, for all Black Americans of the twenty-first century. I don’t believe this book is yet another novel to whet the appetite for White self-recrimination. Is it true that Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad “traces the terrible wounds of slavery,” as Michael Schaub wrote in his NPR review of the novel? That sentence, more than one-hundred-and-fifty years post-Civil War and Emancipation, seems lamely inadequate to me.
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