The Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
So much injustice in this novel.
A teenage black boy catches a ride to the community college in a stolen car and gets years in reform school as punishment during the Jim Crow era. The reform school is hell on Earth and even worse for the black boys. Beatings, sexual abuse, emotional abuse--the Dozier school in Florida is gross, as are the men who worked there.
There is a twist at the end, but that part almost felt like a strange aftertaste--the injustice and the reform school seemed to be the focus in this novel for me.
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