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The Nickel Boys
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Title:
The Nickel Boys
Written by:
Colson Whitehead 
Read by:
J.D. JacksonColson Whitehead 
Format:
Unabridged CD Audio Book 
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Duration:
6 hours 46 minutes 
Published:
August 01 2019 
Available Date:
August 01 2019 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9780655614036 
Genres:
Fiction; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction 
Publisher:
Bolinda audio 
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#1 New York Times bestselling author

Winner The Pulitzer Prize / Fiction 2020

'Whitehead's brilliant examination of America's history of violence is a stunning novel of impeccable language and startling insight.'
Publishers Weekly

A devastating novel – based on true events – of a hellish American reform school, from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad.

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 Jr to heart: He is ‘as good as anyone.’ Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is a high school senior about to start classes at a local college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of 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 that the delinquent boys in their charge can become ‘honourable and honest men.’ In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies and any boy who resists is likely to disappear ‘out back.’ Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King’s ringing assertion ‘Throw us in jail and we will still love you.’ His friend Turner thinks that Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision with repercussions that will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys’ fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy.