The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

When it was finally published in 2016, the inventive and sensitive historical novel about Cora, a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia and her escape to the North, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The American author first thought of writing the story in 2000 but felt he wasn’t a good enough writer to pull it off.

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Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.

Five different neighborhoods coming and going between then and now, other people's other cities. (Ten months ago? Six years? Fifteen? You can't remember, can you?) And there have been five stores in that spot before the travel agency. For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them. You say, ''It happened overnight.'' But of course it didn't.

“You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this very jacket is now rubble behind a blue plywood fence and a future office building.

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead