The Nickel Boys
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead 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.
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Beautifully written. I really appreciate Colson Whiteheadâs writing and I appreciate that this novel gives perspective on the civil rightâs movement.
This book punched me in the gut. Gave me the ol 1, 2. Just when I recovered that ending knocked me flat again.
To find out that this is based on a real story of a reform school for the juvenile is betting heartbreaking and appalling. The ending leaves me wanting to know more about the boy who's now a man with his own business.
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