The Nickel Boys (Colson Whitehead, 2019)

Set in Florida, The Nickel Boys follows the real story of Dozier School, a reform school that ceased after 111 years of instruction due to an investigation that exposed the cruelty and abuse done to its students. The Nickel Boys is Colson Whitehead’s follow up to his book The Underground Railroad, and both books won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2020 and 2017, respectively.