The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

May 6, 2018 by Christina

Fiction — Kindle edition. Doubleday, 2016. 322 pages. Purchased. Whitehead’s novel won both the 2017 Pulitzer Prize and the 2016 National Book Award, the first novel to do so since 1993. It also won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Given this lavishing of praise and accolades, I added Whitehead’s novel to my to-read list but shied away from picking up the novel until I […]

Categories: 2018 Reads, Awards and Prizes, Fiction, North America, ReadDiverse, Science Fiction, United States • Tags: Colson Whitehead

Zone One by Colson Whitehead

October 17, 2014 by Christina

Fiction — audiobook. Read by Beresford Bennett. Books on Tape, 2011. 9 hours, 57 minutes. Library copy. Mark Spitz is a sweeper — a civilian employed by the government in Buffalo to walk through lower Manhattan and kill “malfunctioning” victims of the plague. These victims exist in a catatonic state and sit in front of their televisions or computers transfixed by these remnants of their former lives. Non-malfunctioning victims, whom we would call zombies, have already been eradicated by the military as […]

Categories: 2014 Reads, Abandoned, Audiobook, Dystopia, Fiction, New York, North America, United States • Tags: Beresford Bennett, Colson Whitehead