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    Novel Posits An Alternative Reality Where the Civil War Never Happened

    Jul 14, 2017 4 minutes
    "Underground Airlines," by Ben H. Winters. (Courtesy of Little, Brown and Company)

    Author Ben H. Winters‘ best-selling 2016 novel “Underground Airlines” is set in present day, but in an America where Abraham Lincoln never took office and slavery is legal in four states.

    Here & Now‘s Meghna Chakrabarti revisits a conversation with Winters from last July about the novel, which is out in paperback on July 18, and the difficulties that he had as a white author dealing with such a racially charged topic.

    Book Excerpt: ‘Underground Airlines’

    By Ben H. Winters

    At 9:49 p.m. I stood from the wobbly wooden desk and stretched, raising my hands until they grazed the low ceiling of the hotel room. I felt around in the coat I had taken

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