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@anaulin@social.coopI just published Book Notes: The Nickel Boys: https://anaulin.org/blog/book-notes-nickel-boys/
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anaulin.orgBook Notes: The Nickel Boys · Ana UlinSet in the 1960s, The Nickel Boys follows the story of a bookish Black teenager who, in a heartbreaking turn of bad luck, finds himself thrown in a Florida reform school.
The school, based on a real-life such school, is more focused on exploiting an abusing its wards than on educating them. There is, of course, segregation and unapologetic racism.
The Nickel Boy]s is also a story of friendship, the costs of doing what’s right, the healing effects of facing one’s past and, through it all, of survival (with scars and all).