The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

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Colson Whitehead's powerful and heartrending Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Colson Whitehead's electrifying Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida, in which two boys find themselves at  a hellish reform school. Read by Rhashan Stone.

Colson Whitehead's electrifying and heartbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida, where two boys are unjustly sent to a hellish reform school.  

Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. He's a hard-working student, but his bright future is destroyed by an innocent and tragic mistake. Finding himself at the brutal Nickel Academy, he tries to to hold on to Dr King's ringing assertion to love your enemies and to work hard to get on, but his new friend Turner calls him naive at best. The tension between Elwood's idealism and Turner's scepticism leads to a decision which will have decades-long repercussions....

Writer: Colson Whitehead's previous novel, The Underground Railroad won the Pulitzer Prize. The NIckel Boys, his latest novel, has also won the Pulitzer.
Reader: Rhashan Stone
Producer: Justine Willett
Abridger: Richard Hamilton

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Colson Whitehead's electrifying novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida. Read by Rhashan Stone.

Colson Whitehead's electrifying Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida, in which two boys find themselves at a hellish reform school. Read by Rhashan Stone.

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