8: Uncomfortable Truths
Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida. Today: Elwood, now an adult, has an uncomfortable meeting with one of the old Nickel Boys...
Colson Whitehead's electrifying and heart-breaking Pulitzer-winning novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida, read by Rhashan Stone.
Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. A hard-working student, his future looks bright, until an innocent and tragic mistake puts him in the wrong place at the wrong time....
Today: Elwood, now a grown man, living in New York, has an uncomfortable encounter with one of the old Nickel Boys...
Writer: Colson Whitehead's previous novel, The Underground Railroad won the Pulitzer Prize. The NIckel Boys, his latest novel, has also won the Pulitzer.
Reader: Rhashan Stone
Producer: Justine Willett
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
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