Date Read: May 17
Author: Colson Whitehead
Genre: Historical Fiction
Rating: 4/5
From the author of The Underground Railroad and Zone One comes the story of The Nickel Academy. When human remains are unearthed on the grounds of what used to be a boys’ reformatory, Elwood Curtis realizes that he must finally confront his past. Based on the story of a real reformatory in Florida, The Nickel Boys is a well-written novel that deals with the Jim Crow-era south.
If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest. That’s how he saw it, how he’d always seen things
– The Nickel Boys
Zoey's Year in Books 2020 