01662cam a2200301 4500 425430316 TxAuBib 20191106120000.0 180910s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 2018042961 9780385537070 0385537077 TxAuBib Whitehead, Colson, 1969- The Nickel Boys / Colson Whitehead. First edition. New York : Doubleday, 2019. 213 p ; 22 cm. Bestseller 2019. When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood's only salvation is his friendship with fellow "delinquent" Turner, which deepens despite Turner's conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 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. 20191106. Literary Fiction. Civil rights. Corruption. Abuse. Historical fiction. fast TXGID