Summary provided by the publisher:
\n"When Elwood Curtis\, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee\, is un fairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy\, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood's only sal vation is his friendship with fellow 'delinquent' Turner\, which deepens d espite Turner's conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive\, that the worl d is crooked\, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid tro uble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous\, the tension betw een Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repe rcussions will echo down the decades."
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