The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead (Paperback)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Colson Whitehead's powerful novel is set in Jim Crow-era Florida. Elwood Curtis, a principled Black teenager inspired by the civil rights movement, is unjustly sentenced to the Nickel Academy, a reform school hiding brutal abuse behind its respectable facade.

There he forms a friendship with the more cynical Turner, and the two boys respond in very different ways to the cruelty around them. Based on the history of a real institution, this paperback is a moving, essential story of injustice, survival and memory, and the basis for an acclaimed film adaptation.