The Nickel Boys

One sentence synopsis... Although extremely well-written and tackling important subject matter (the horrors of a Southern reformatory school for boys in the 1960s) ‘Nickel Boys' left me oddly unaffected by the characters and predictable plot twist.

Read it if you like... tragedies, this one will beat you down and break all idealism.

Dream casting... ‘Stranger Things' Caleb McLaughlin as studious Elwood Curtis and Abraham Attah as his jaded friend Turner.