Richland Library Ballentine
Bookin' It in Ballentine
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Join us for a book group discussion of this month’s title, The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead. For more information or to arrange to pick up a book call Michele Maitland at 803-781-5026.
"When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children."
Bookin' It in Ballentine meets the last Wednesday of the month at Richland Library Ballentine.