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All About Books: “Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead

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The novel “Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead was inspired by an actual reform school that operated in Tallahassee Florida for over one hundred years. This week on “All About Books” host Pat Leach reviews this story of a black teenager unfairly sent to the brutal school in the 1960’s where boys were a...
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