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100 1  Whitehead, Colson,|d1969-|eauthor,|enarrator. 
245 14 The Nickel boys|h[UNABRIDGED sound recording] :|ba novel /
       |cColson Whitehead. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [Westminster, Md.] :|bBooks on Tape ;|a[New York] :
       |bRandom House Audio,|c[2019] 
300    6 audio discs (7 hr.) :|bCD audio, digital ;|c4 3/4 in. 
336    spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 
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347    |bCD audio 
500    Compact discs. 
511 0  Read by the author and JD Jackson. 
520    In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and 
       National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, 
       Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of 
       American history through the story of two boys sentenced 
       to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the
       Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of
       Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes 
       the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as 
       good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the
       straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to
       enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in 
       the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent 
       mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is 
       sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel 
       Academy, whose mission statement says it provides 
       "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the 
       delinquent boys in their charge can become "honorable and 
       honest men." In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque
       chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and 
       sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals
       steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely
       to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a
       vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold onto Dr. King's 
       ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love
       you." His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive,
       that the world is crooked, and that the only way to 
       survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension 
       between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a
       decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. 
       Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the 
       boys' fates will be determined by what they endured at the
       Nickel Academy. 
650  0 African American teenagers|vFiction|vSound recordings. 
650  0 Reformatories|zUnited States|vFiction|vSound recordings. 
650  0 African Americans|xSegregation|vFiction|vSound recordings.
650  0 Discrimination against African Americans|vSound 
       recordings. 
655  7 Sound recording.|2local 
655  7 Audiobooks.|2lcgft 
700 1  Jackson, JD,|enarrator.