Literary Fiction
by Colson Whitehead
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. His friendship with fellow student Turner offers salvation amid systemic brutality, but survival requires impossible choices. Whitehead's devastating novel, inspired by real reform school atrocities, bears unflinching witness to America's violent racial history.
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