BOOKCLUB DETAILS:
Date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: BLK + BRWN. (104 1/2 W 39th St, KCMO 64111)
The group will meet once at the end of the month to discuss The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.
Guests are welcome to bring a snack/drink to share for the meeting.
The bookclub usually meets for 1.5 hours inside the bookstore to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of this month’s read. The group is super casual — so although finishing the book (to avoid spoilers) is highly encouraged you are not required to have book finished before our meeting. Life be lifing sometimes, so we get it.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this Pulitzer Prize-winning follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
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).
Look for Colson Whitehead's bestselling new novel, Harlem Shuffle!
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