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     • Colson Whitehead's deeply affecting new novel is based on the true story of a segregated reform school in Florida where African American boys were brutalized and possibly murdered.
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   Is the Nickel Boys a good book?

   • The Nickel Boys issues a complex and deeply affecting verdict on whether or not the arc of the moral universe does indeed bend toward justice. But my "verdict," so to speak, on The Nickel Boys is much more straightforward: It's a great American novel.

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   Is the Nickel Boys based on a true story?

   • His new book, "The Nickel Boys," is based on the true story of the Dozier School for Boys, a now-closed juvenile reform school in the Florida Panhandle, where former students have told stories of beatings and sexual abuse and where investigators have found dozens of unmarked graves.

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   Is Nickel Boys a movie Miracle?

   • Nickel Boys feels like some kind of movie miracle. That’s less a commentary on its quality, truth be told—though if you’ve scanned reviews, you might have an idea of just how high this one soars—than on its ambition, so radically realized and yet somehow backed by a major studio in Amazon MGM (via its Orion Pictures label).

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   Is Nickel Academy a real school?

   • In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical, emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists is likely to disappear 'out back'.

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   Jul 16, 2019 · His new book, "The Nickel Boys," is based on the true story of the Dozier School for Boys, a now-closed reform school in the Florida panhandle where there were accusations of...

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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.

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   Jul 16, 2019 · Colson Whitehead's deeply affecting new novel is based on the true story of a segregated reform school in Florida where African American boys were brutalized and possibly murdered.

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   Jul 14, 2019 · In “The Nickel Boys,” the house of horrors is fictionally memorialized as the Nickel Academy of Eleanor, Fla. The discovery of an unmarked graveyard is an inconvenience both for the real...

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   Jul 16, 2019 · The Nickel Boys is fictional account based on the true, horrifying Dozier School for Boys in good ol’ Florida, which Whitehead references at both the beginning and end of the book. ”You can hide a lot in an acre, in the dirt.”

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   Aug 31, 2024 · The Oscar-nominated documentarian (Hale County This Morning, This Evening) makes his fiction debut with this true-story-based tale of two Black teenagers, Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner...

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    Sep 23, 2024 · The resulting film Nickel Boys, starring an incandescent Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Origin, The Color Purple, If Beale Street Could Talk) as Harriet, Ethan Herisse as her studious grandson Curtis ...