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The Nickel Boys is a 2019 novel by American novelist Colson Whitehead. It is based on the historic Dozier School, a reform school in Florida that operated for 111 years and was revealed as highly abusive.
Jul 16, 2019 · A historical fiction novel based on a real reform school in Florida that abused and exploited thousands of children. Follow the story of Elwood and Turner, two boys who face different choices and consequences in a racist and corrupt system.
A novel by Colson Whitehead about a reform school in Florida that abuses its students. Follow Elwood Curtis, a teenage activist, as he faces violence, injustice, and trauma at the Nickel Academy.
Learn about the novel by Colson Whitehead, inspired by a real-life reform school in Florida. Explore the themes of racism, abuse, and justice in the 1960s Civil Rights era.
A novel about a young black man who is wrongfully sent to a brutal reform school in the 1950s and 60s. Learn about his experiences at Nickel Academy, his friendship with Turner, and his quest for justice and dignity.
Jul 16, 2019 · The Nickel Boys is a beautiful, wrenching act of witness, a painful remembrance of an 'infinite brotherhood of broken boys,' and it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Whitehead is one of the most gifted novelists in America today.
About The Nickel Boys. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
