![]() ![]() This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Buy Now Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel The Underground Railroad combines elements of historical fiction and magic realism to tell the story of Cora, a girl enslaved on a Georgia plantation who runs away in search of freedom. The white race believes––believes with all its heart––that it is their right to take the land. Yet here we are.Īnd America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. By every fact of history, it can't exist. COLSON WHITEHEAD is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award.A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City. Who told you the negro deserved a place of refuge? Who told you that you had that right? Every minute of your life's suffering has argued otherwise. ![]() Still we run, tracking by the good full moon to sanctuary. ![]() When you saw your mother sold off, your father beaten, your sister abused by some boss or master, did you ever think you would sit here today, without chains, without the yoke, among a new family? Everything you ever knew told you that freedom was a trick-yet here you are. Here's one delusion: that we can escape slavery. ![]() Nothing's going to grow in this mean cold, but we can still have flowers. Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth. ![]()
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