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As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.īased 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. It was published by Doubleday on September 14, 2021. It is a work of crime fiction and a family saga that takes place in Harlem between 19.

It is the follow-up to Whitehead's 2019 novel The Nickel Boys, which earned him his second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. Harlem Shuffle is a 2021 novel by American novelist Colson Whitehead. 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. In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST An inviting point of entrance into the truth seeking, genre defying novels of the award-winning authorIn 2020 Colson Whitehead became the youngest recipient. Time, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vox, Variety, Christian Science Monitor, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, Literary Hub, BuzzFeed, The New York Public Library