January 2021
WLC/Sisterhood Book Club
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. In this Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Colson Whitehead (author of THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD) presents two adolescents unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida during the 1960s. Depicting the friendship of these two very different boys whose fates become intertwined, Whitehead has written a searing tale that will stay with you forever. The story is based on a real reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of…
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