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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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- 2019
Jul 16, 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. Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone.
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The Nickel Boys is a novel inspired by the real-life horrors of reform schools in the US. It follows Elwood Curtis, a Black teenager who faces racism and abuse at Nickel Academy, a fictional school in Florida.
A novel by Colson Whitehead about a reform school in Florida that abuses its students. Follow Elwood Curtis, a teenage activist, as he faces violence, injustice, and trauma at the Nickel Academy.
A novel about a young black man who is sent to a brutal reform school in the 1950s and 60s. Learn about his experiences at Nickel Academy, his friendship with Turner, and his quest for justice and dignity.
About The Nickel Boys. 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.
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Jul 16, 2019 · An Amazon Best Book of July 2019: Based on a real school for boys that closed in Florida in 2011 after more than one hundred years in existence, Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Academy is the kind of institution that purports to rebrand bad boys into good young men.
