The Nickel Boys

✍ Scribed by Colson Whitehead

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 138 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0385545444

✦ Synopsis

In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Timesbestseller 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 Jim Crow-era Florida.
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called The Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the delinquent boys in...