Lisa Eckstein’s Reviews > The Nickel Boys > Status Update

"...this boy bobbed in his own pocket of calm. Over time, Elwood saw that he was always simultaneously at home in whatever scene he found himself and also seemed like he shouldn't have been there; inside and above at the same time; a part and apart. Like a tree trunk that falls across a creek--it doesn't belong and then it's never not been there, generating its own ripples in the larger current."