The Nickel Boys
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The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
Literature
BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
Oct 22, 2020
Elizabeth Allen was our runner-up in Byrd’s Books Battle IV on October 21, 2020 with her eloquent argument for Colson Whitehead’s latest book, The Nickel Boys. The story of two boys unjustly sentenced to do time at a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida, this book tells of the struggle to navigate the benefits and liabilities of friendship in a place where brutality and racism rule. Whitehead’s Nickel Academy is based on an actual reform school which operated for more than a century in Florida. This is a searing read, made all the more essential right now.
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