The Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
"THIS OR THIS. This world whose injustices have sent you meek and shuffling, or this truer, biding world waiting for you to catch up?"
Utterly heartbreaking and necessary reading, based on the true story of the the Dozier for Boys, Florida. T.T It makes you realize how luck plays a huge part in determining how one's life turns out, why not everyone can make the jump to radical love like Martin Luter King Jr., and how abusing the child warps the man.
But it is also about friendship, and ideals, and the beauty of our daily decisions "to trust in the decency that lived in every human heart " despite all the evil.
Be warned. You're going to need plenty of tissue for the heartbreaker of an ending.
Putting Colson Whitehead on my automatic-read list, what a jewel of a book this is!!
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