Review: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Barb: Based on a the true story of a reform school in Florida that literally got away with many murders and abuses for 111 years. How can this happen??

Julie: You knew this book was special before you opened it because it was written by Whitehead. But it's the kind of book that you think about months after reading it--the kind that stays with you.

It won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was in both of our top tens for 2019--Basically the same prestige

Rating: 1 million (5)

Buy and hang on every word.

The Nickel Boys appears in Barb and Julie's Top 10 of 2019 posts, as well as Authors We Love, Part 3: Boys Are Bitches Too!