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Women's AM Book Club -- CANCELLED

When:
Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 10:30 AM until 12:00 PM
Where:
Horizon Books
243 Front Street
Traverse City, MI  49686
Additional Info:
Event Contact(s):
Nancy K Sweet
Category:
Women’s Morning Book Club
Registration is not Required
Payment In Full In Advance Only
No Fee

April 7, 2020 @ 10:30am in the lower level of Horizon Books. The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead, published in 2019.

The book is a fictionalized story of the Dozier School for Boys, dubbed Nickel Academy. The school opened in 1900 and closed in 2011. The state of Florida ran Dozier as a reform school. after decades of allegations against the school for allowing the beatings, rapes, torture and even murder of students by guards and employees, the school was investigated and closed. The novel has received rave reviews. The New Republic exclaimed, "The Nickel Boys is fiction, but it burns with outrageous truth." Meanwhile, The Guardian wrote, "He demonstrates to superb effect how racism in America has long operated as a codified and sanctioned activity intended to enrich one group at the expense of another."