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"…the immense exertion white people put into grinding them down…."
Elwood Curtis is doing well in life and in school in early 1960’s Tallahassee, Florida, when he hitchhikes to a college class he’s been allowed to enroll in in high school and accidentally changes his destiny. He lands at the Nickel Academy–a Florida reform school for boys that is a special circle of hell.
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Colson Whitehead is one of THE authors of our time whose works are destined to be classics–especially The U ...more
"…the immense exertion white people put into grinding them down…."
Elwood Curtis is doing well in life and in school in early 1960’s Tallahassee, Florida, when he hitchhikes to a college class he’s been allowed to enroll in in high school and accidentally changes his destiny. He lands at the Nickel Academy–a Florida reform school for boys that is a special circle of hell.
My Thoughts
Colson Whitehead is one of THE authors of our time whose works are destined to be classics–especially The U ...more
Beautifully written and very hard to read. The story of Elwood and Turner is at once so full of hopelessness and at the same time, a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit. It took me a little bit to get in to the story, but by the end it really moved me.
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