The Nickel Boys

Recommended by Sean Lahman, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #23 in 2019, Ranked #29 in Black Authorsee more rankings.

In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller 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 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...
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Sean Lahman @DanTelvock Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. The MVP Machine is a great book about what’s happening in baseball. (Source)


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