The Nickel Boys
Book • 2019 • History
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FireMoon42
The abuse of the boys at the reform school is a central part of the book.
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Multiple stories of boys being sexually assaulted by supervisors at the academy
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Is someone tortured?
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A teenager is restrained and beaten to death (off-page, chapter 9)
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Does a kid die?
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The prologue describes numerous graves of kids being found, there are stories about the deaths of kids throughout the book, and one of the protagonists is killed at the end of the book (chapter 16)
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Racism is a prominent theme of the book -- it is set in 1960s Florida.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Partly. One of the protagonists is shot in the back while trying to escape, but the other lives out his life and sees the reform school's abuses exposed.
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