The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction‪)‬

A Novel

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Publisher Description

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. • "One of the most gifted novelists in America today." —NPR
 
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 and “should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation's best" (Entertainment Weekly).

Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2019
July 16
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
2.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Tyed1015 ,

Ok read!

This was a good fiction book for the most part. I didn’t like how the ending went so well, but content in this book on criminal justice back in the day was really vivid.

Word play frenzy ,

Difficult to follow and left hanging at the end

I stuck with this book after buying it, but struggled to get through it. The flashbacks were not seamless. Characters were introduced without a buildup, then dropped. The ending built up to something expected, but just ended. I’m not sure how this book won a Pulitzer. Not even close.

Painting Enthusiast ,

Shame on Them

Another blemish in American history that the powers that be don’t want to acknowledge or recognize.

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