Oprah's Book Club's latest pick: "The Underground Railroad"

[Cal Carpenter]

2. I thought it was great.

Even before Oprah announced it as her pick (Got an advanced reader copy through a friend in the biz)

He does a really good job at writing what feels like an entirely realistic style book while you read it, yet the flourishes of the railroad being literal and certain other ways of playing with the timing and locations of close-to-truth historical events make it more of a 'speculative' fiction piece, almost magical realism... but you barely notice that when you're reading.

Very well written, powerful, page-turning book.