THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK.

The unmissable debut novel by the critically acclaimed author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power - a richly imagined and compulsively page-turning journey to freedomHiram Walker is a man with a secret, and a war to win. A war for the right to life, to family, to freedom. Born into bondage on a Virginia plantation, he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape.

One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family and into the heart of the underground war on slavery...

'One of the best books I have ever read in my entire life. I haven't felt this way since I first read Beloved...' - Oprah Winfrey.

A transcendent work from a crucial political and literary artist' - Diana Evans.

'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' - Toni Morrison.