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Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Florida. Praise for Pulitzer Prize-winning The Underground Railroad:'My book of the year by some distance . . . luminous, furious, wildly inventive'Observer'An engrossing and harrowing novel'Sunday Times'Tells one of the most compelling stories I have ever read'Guardian Whitehead is a superb storyteller . . . [he] brilliantly intertwines his allegory with history . . .