The Nickel Boys

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ΓÇó In this Pulitzer Prize-winning 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. When Elwood Curtisa black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahasseeis unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academyhe finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. ElwoodΓÇÖs only salvation is his friendship with fellow ΓÇ£delinquentΓÇ¥ Turnerwhich deepens despite TurnerΓÇÖs conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naivethat the world is crookedand that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilousthe tension between ElwoodΓÇÖs ideals and TurnerΓÇÖs 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 childrenThe Nickel Boys is a devastatingdriven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers and ΓÇ£should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation’s best\