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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 · Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2019) Author of 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 1960s Florida.
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.
The Nickel Boys Summary. Next. Prologue. During an “environmental study,” a team of archaeologists unearths a secret graveyard on the grounds of what used to be Nickel Academy, a reform school that recently closed.
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The Nickel Boys is a novel written by Colson Whitehead, published in 2019. Set in the 1960s, the story unfolds in the fictional Nickel Academy, a reform school in Florida. The novel follows the life of Elwood Curtis, an Black teenager who, despite his aspirations for a brighter future, finds himself at Nickel Academy after a misunderstanding.
The Nickel Boys is a harrowing tale of the distressing Jim Crow era where blacks were subjected to racial discrimination and were victims of unforgivable crimes. A must read for everyone to understand the impact of segregation and racial discrimination on the modern era.
- Colson Whitehead
