The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
🏆 Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Colson Whitehead’s much anticipated follow-up to The Underground Railroad follows two black boys sentenced to reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. Whitehead based his hellish vision on a real-life institution which was run for more than 100 years. The Nickel Boys was recently adapted for the screen by RaMell Ross; the acclaimed film stars Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson.
