The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead's novel The Nickel Boys was published in 2019. It is based on the true story of the Dozier School, a reform school in Florida that operated for 111 years before a university investigation revealed its history. TIME named it one of the best books of the decade. It's the sequel to Whitehead's 2016 novel The Underground Railroad, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2017.

Whitehead's brilliant novel is based on the true story of a reform school that operated for 111 years, committed atrocities against black boys, and ruined the lives of thousands of children. In The Nickel Boys, Elwood Curtis, a Black boy growing up in Jim Crow-era Florida, finds himself in this situation. Turner, a fellow 'delinquent' who challenges Elwood's ideas about how the world should work, is his only hope at the perilous Academy. Rising tension between the two friends leads to a decision with far-reaching consequences.

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