Book of The Month: "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead
Editor’s note: This is the third Whitehead book I’ve featured. After enjoying his fictional character portrayals of 1970’s Harlem, I tried “Underground Railroad” and was unable to get a third of the way through. There are only so many holocaust and slavery books I can read without fulling falling into depression. This novel remained poignant though readable novel is set in 1960s Tallahassee, Florida, as civil rights were just emerging.
Favorite excerpt:
“In our modern age, cell phone technology permits us to record the constant brutality that occurs all around us; we experience not an uptick in violence but a new kind of witnessing.”