“Stolen bodies working stolen land” I’ve been fjording my way slowly through the 2017 Booker long list this summer. It propelled me to finally reading The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Whitehead’s underground railroad is an actual physical railroad under the ground, and it’s a thing of majestic mythical beauty. It’s so beautifully and vividly described I almost wondered if I didn’t actually know what the real Underground Railroad was.