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Powell’s Indiespensable book subscriptions are open and we have spoilers for Volume 81! This subscription is $44.95 and ships every 6 weeks.

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If you sign up now, your first shipment (Volume 81) will include:

• An exclusive signed edition of The Nickel Boys in a custom slipcase created for Indiespensable
• A collectible booklet featuring the Powells.com interview and Indiespensable Q&A with Colson Whitehead
• Other surprises!

With a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award already on his list of achievements, Colson Whitehead gives us another literary groundbreaker with The Nickel Boys, a momentous work of fiction challenging every soul to search out the deep truths of the past. Opening in 1963 in Tallahassee, Florida, The Nickel Boys follows Elwood Curtis as he reflects back on his youth as an ambitious high school student whose bright future is horrifically redirected when an innocent error lands him in Nickel Academy, a reform school for boys. From there, we discover the abuses that await him and the other boys locked inside. Throughout his experiences, Elwood holds onto Martin Luther King Jr.’s words — “Throw us in jail and we will still love you… But be assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom.” — even as events draw to an inescapable climax. Based on the real Dozier School for Boys, a brutal reformatory that operated for over 100 years, Whitehead brings to life characters, a place, and a time crucial to understanding more fully the violent and criminal injustices of America’s past. We are honored to present The Nickel Boys as our selection for Indiespensable Volume 81.

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