The Nickel Boys: A Novel
by Whitehead, Colson
Month: 4
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
List Price: $15.95

Here is Colson Whitehead's bravura follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, The Underground Railroad. The Nickel Boys brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

It's the early 1960s, and as the Civil Rights movement begins to reach segregated Tallahassee, the young, deeply princi...(more)