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Fiction

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

7. Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters.

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 07:36 AM

Jul 2016

His latest. It takes place in a United States where the Civil War never happened, four states (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Carolina [North and South united into one state at some point] known as the Hard Four) still have slavery. A man called Victor, himself a freed (or escaped?) slave works for the U.S. Marshall Service hunting runaways. So far, so good.

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What are you reading this week of July 24, 2016? [View all] hermetic Jul 2016 OP

I'm reading Stephen King's "End of Watch." yallerdawg Jul 2016 #1

Yes, I agree hermetic Jul 2016 #2

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He is such a good writer hermetic Jul 2016 #11

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