2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS*
*Longlist, Fiction only.
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In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him.
Winner of The Paris Review/Terry Southern Prize for Humor.
"Chris Bachelder is a witty, compassionate troublemaker, and we need more like him." —George Saunders
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture
National Book Award Finalist—Fiction
National Book Award Finalist
Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
Winner of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award
A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller
A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017
A Bustle Fall Roundup pick for 2017
Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction A Finalist for the James Taite Black Prize for Fiction A Finalist the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A Finalist for the Green Carnation Prize A New York Times
From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most?
$16.00ISBN: 9781101981597Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Books - November 1st, 2016Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction
Finalist for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction
$15.95ISBN: 9780393354188Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: W. W. Norton & Company - May 2nd, 2017Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction: Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband.
$15.95ISBN: 9780393354386Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: W. W. Norton & Company - July 11th, 2017Longlisted for the National Book Award and a Washington Post Best Book of the Year
"Gorgeous…A writer of profound emotional depths." —New York Times Book Review
