The Nickel Boys
The Nickel BoysColson Whitehead
Characters in The Nickel Boys
2 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Elwood Curtis
Idealistic, studious Black teenager in early-1960s Tallahassee, sent to the brutal Nickel Academy reform school.
Turner (The Nickel Boys)
Elwood's cynical fellow student at Nickel, whose survival strategy is to keep his head down.