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092    |fF|aWHITEHEA 
100 1  Whitehead, Colson,|d1969-|eauthor. 
245 14 The nickel boys :|ba novel /|cColson Whitehead. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bDoubleday,|c[2019] 
300    213 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and 
       National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller 
       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. Based on the real story of a reform school
       in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years 
       and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel 
       Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a 
       great American novelist writing at the height of his 
       powers. 
650  0 Reformatories|vFiction. 
650  0 African American teenagers|vFiction. 
650  0 Racism|vFiction. 
651  0 Florida|vFiction. 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd