The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction): A Novel,New

Pulitzer Prize Winner National Bestseller This Followup To The Underground Railroad Brilliantly Dramatizes Another Strand Of American History Through The Story Of Two Boys Unjustly Sentenced To A Hellish Reform School In Jim Crowera Florida. 'One Of The Most Gifted Novelists In America Today.' Nprnickel Boys, Now A Major Motion Picture Directed By Academy Award Nominee Ramell Ross. Now Playing In Select Theaters.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. Elwoods Only Salvation Is His Friendship With Fellow Delinquent Turner, Which Deepens Despite Turners 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 Elwoods Ideals And Turners 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 And Should Further Cement Whitehead As One Of His Generation'S Best' (Entertainment Weekly).Look For Colson Whiteheads New Novel, Crook Manifesto!