The Nickel Boys

…won his second Pulitzer for The Nickel Boys. Set in the 1960s, the novel centers on two Black teenagers who are placed in a juvenile reformatory. Whitehead has also published nonfiction, including The Noble Hustle, about the 2011 World Series of Poker.

…The Underground Railroad (2016) and The Nickel Boys (2019). The first of the two novels was a neo-slave narrative that reimagined a form that had already been well deconstructed in the late 20th century by Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison. Blending elements of fantasy with the real-life histories of Frederick…

His success continued with The Nickel Boys (2019). Based on real events, the book is set in 1960s Florida, which was then under Jim Crow laws that discriminated against African Americans. The story follows two Black teenagers who are sent to a juvenile reform school where they are physically…

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