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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead: 8: Uncomfortable Truths

8: Uncomfortable Truths

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Colson Whitehead's electrifying and heartrending novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida.

Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida. Today: Elwood, now an adult, has an uncomfortable meeting with one of the old Nickel Boys...

Colson Whitehead's electrifying and heart-breaking Pulitzer-winning novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida, read by Rhashan Stone.

Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. A hard-working student, his future looks bright, until an innocent and tragic mistake puts him in the wrong place at the wrong time....

Today: Elwood, now a grown man, living in New York, has an uncomfortable encounter with one of the old Nickel Boys...

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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