Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
I’m always a fan of Colson Whitehead — he plays so well in nearly every genre — and ‘Nickel Boys’ is right up there in this Civil Rights-era story of a straight-and-narrow Black boy who ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time, resulting in a sentence at a reform school that is anything but. Still, Elwood figures out how to survive while maintaining his dignity.
Refocus for Reinvention