The novel opens with a prologue that sets its subject matter at a historical remove: Even in death the boys were trouble. The secret graveyard lay on the north side of the Nickel campus.

Readers encounter this sentiment early in The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead’s award-winning 2019 novel, not long after the ...

They often ended up in Boot Hill Cemetery. None of the graves was marked ... Released in December 2024, Nickel Boys follows Elwood (played by Ethan Herisse), an idealist raised by his devoted ...