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Elwood Curtis is a good boy. One mischance and the following injustice found him incarcerated in a reform school in Florida. He continued to do what's expected of him to do, be good, until such time that he had to rise against the cruelty he sees all around him. The result, of course, was as expected... more cruelty and further injustice.
While the story and characters are fictional, this novel is based on a real reform school in Florida. It just breaks my heart. And maybe I wasn't paying enough ...more
While the story and characters are fictional, this novel is based on a real reform school in Florida. It just breaks my heart. And maybe I wasn't paying enough ...more
I recently read Jesus Land: A Memoir, which is a memoir telling the story of a religious reform school in the Dominican Republic where the author and her brother were sent by their parents. That story strongly parallels the story told here of the Dozier School, though this one is state-run and only for boys, and perhaps even worse than the school described in Jesus Land.
Colson Whitehead has written a devastating and masterful story to tell the stories of these students and the horrible experienc ...more
Colson Whitehead has written a devastating and masterful story to tell the stories of these students and the horrible experienc ...more
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