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The Nickel Boys

by Colson Whitehead · 2019

Literary Fiction · ranked #29 in category

Winner · The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2020

At the Nickel Academy, a Florida reform school in the 1960s, two Black teenagers — the idealistic Elwood and the pragmatic Turner — face systematic abuse and find different ways to survive. Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a devastating account of institutional racism and the long shadow that violence casts over an entire life.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2019 · 2010s
Author
Colson Whitehead
Standing
Essential Read

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