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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.
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.
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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.
Jul 16, 2019 · Colson Whitehead's deeply affecting new novel is based on the true story of a segregated reform school in Florida where African American boys were brutalized and...
The Nickel Boys is a novel written by Colson Whitehead, published in 2019. Set in the 1960s, the story unfolds in the fictional Nickel Academy, a reform school in Florida. The novel follows the life of Elwood Curtis, an Black teenager who, despite his aspirations for a brighter future, finds himself at Nickel Academy after a misunderstanding.
