WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARTime,&#16 0;Esquire, The Washington Post, The Guardian,& #160;Slate, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vox,&#1 60;Variety, Christian Science Monitor, The Minneapol is Star Tribune, The Dallas Morning News,  Literary Hub, BuzzFeed, The New York Public LibraryNEW YORK TIMES BESTSEL LERNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADEWINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National B ook Award-winning #1New York TimesbestsellerThe Underground Railroad, Co lson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Flor ida. When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahas see, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood&;s only s alvation is his friendship with fellow &;delinquent&; Turner, which deep ens despite Turner&;s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the w orld 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& amp;;s ideals and Turner&;s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussio ns will echo down the decades. Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children , The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers.