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The Nickel Boys is a searing, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Colson Whitehead based on the true story of a reform school in 1960s Florida. It follows Elwood Curtis, an idealistic Black youth striving for a better future, and Turner, his streetwise roommate, as they endure and resist the brutal injustices of the Nickel Academy. Whitehead’s unflinching narrative exposes systemic racism and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of oppression.