We are thrilled to announce that The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2016 Selection!! All editions are on-sale today. In his sixth novel, Whitehead tells the harrowing story of Cora, an indomitable teenage slave and her desperate bid for freedom from an antebellum cotton plantation in Georgia circa 1850. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share. “[S]pellbinding and ferocious…. The story is literature at its finest and history at…