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Whitehead’s Latest Captures Jim Crow-Era Florida

Following Colson Whitehead's critically acclaimed 2016 novel The Underground Railroad, expectations were set very high for the author's next work. Fortunately, Whitehead delivers in his searing new novel, The Nickel Boys (Doubleday). Set during the advent of the Civil Rights movement, The Nickel Boys centers on Elwood Curtis, an up-and-coming African…
Jessica McEntee
July 15, 2019