Nickel Boys, The

Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Nickel Boys dramatizes the true story of a notorious reform school that operated for 111 years. In 1960s Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis, a black student, finds himself unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy. There, he meets Turner, a cynical teenager who believes the only way to survive the dehumanizing school and its corrupt administration is to stay out of trouble. But as conditions worsen, Elwood and Turner hatch a plan to escape, not knowing that their actions will have irreparable consequences decades later.

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