The Nickel Boys  by Colson Whitehead is the September book pick for the We’re Talkin’ Books! Club meeting. Join in person at the Civic Center Library in the Board Room or via Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/WTBLPL on Thursday, September 3, at 7 p.m.

Book Summary: “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.” - the publisher

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