Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal, and the Hurston/Wright Award. Recognized as the best book of the year by the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time, People, NPR, and many others. New York Times Number 1 Bestseller. "Get it, and then get another copy for someone you know, because you will definitely want to talk about it once you’ve read that heartbreaking final page." --Oprah Winfrey (Oprah's Book Club selection 2016). "[A] powerful, almost hallucinatory novel.... It possesses the chillingly factual power of the slave narratives collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s, with echoes of Toni Morrison's Beloved, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and brushstrokes borrowed from Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, and Jonathan.".