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REVIEWS: The Nickel Boys
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The NY Times
NPR
Goodreads
Book Companion
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 of the early
1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future.
Based on the real story of a reform school in Florida that
operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped the lives
of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating,
driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist
writing at the height of his powers.
Characters: 103. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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University
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Dale
Mabry Air Field on Wikipedia. |
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Jim
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Lincoln
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Notes
of a Native Son by James Baldwin. |
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