"The Nickel Boys" Reading Group Presented by Books & Books

Books & Books is proud to present a new reading group dedicated to the most anticipated page-to-screen adaptations. This December, we have selected Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys. The film adaptation, starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, comes out in theaters on December 13th.
RSVP is free, but please only register if you intend to join us as space is limited. We will also be offering a $5 special on house beer and wine as well as a 15% discount on one (1) book of your choice.
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"One of the most gifted novelists in America today." —NPR
Nickel Boys, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Academy Award® nominee RaMell Ross. Coming to Theaters this Fall.
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’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. 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.
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 and “should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation's best" (Entertainment Weekly).

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