{"id":2317,"date":"2021-07-20T22:12:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T05:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:31:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T21:31:17","slug":"nickel-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/nickel-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickel Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nickel Boys<\/a> <\/strong>\u2013 By Colson Whitehead\u00a0\u2013 When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood\u2019s only salvation is his friendship with fellow \u201cdelinquent\u201d Turner, which deepens despite Turner\u2019s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood\u2019s ideals and Turner\u2019s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>