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~ Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 2020, the Kirkus Prize for Fiction - 2019, the George Orwell Prize for Political Fiction - 2020, the ALA Alex Award - 2020, the Lincoln Award - 2021,
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history with The Nickel Boys: the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida . . .
Based on the real story of a reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years, warping the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, plot-driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers.