The
Nickel Boys: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
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WINNER
OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
ONE
OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
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Esquire, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate, NPR, Entertainment Weekly,
Vox, Variety, Christian Science Monitor, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The
Dallas Morning News, Literary Hub, BuzzFeed, The New York Public Library
NEW
YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL
BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
ONE
OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE
WINNER
OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
LONGLISTED
FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
LONGLISTED
FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020
In
this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1
New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of
two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
When Elwood Curtis, a black boy
growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile
reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque
chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow
“delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is
hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive
is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more
perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to
a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.
Based on the real story of a
reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of
children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a
great American novelist writing at the height of his powers.
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