Stephen Matlock’s Reviews > Underground Airlines > Status Update

It is haunting and cruel and tender. It is the story of an America that never was, a story of an America as it is. I want to put it down as it drains me with the horrific ordinary wickedness and evil disguised as cheerful white accommodation to a white supremacist minority.

But I keep on reading because woven in the fabric of this dull banality are threads of gold, of the best of what humans *can* be.