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caitlin_bookchats 's review for:
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
adventurous
dark
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Murder, Abandonment
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Rape, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Colonisation
This book in some ways is a greatest hits of 19th century racism so it includes eugenics, forced sterilization, genocide, weekly lynchings, it doesn't revel in any of these things but know going in that reading this book will involve acknowledging these happened and some reckoning with who perpetrated these atrocities against whom.
Oh also, warning for repeated use of racial slurs, including the n-word, by characters.