Random Number Lit

I decided to read or listen to Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys because the two books that I am supposed to be reading right now are Alasdair Gray’s Lanark and Bana’s Kadambari , neither of which have audiobooks that I can find. I pulled up Whitehead’s text because it is the final entry in the previous project that I started many, many years ago with my friend Drew Moody to read all of the books that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. I needed something to listen to and found that The Nickel Boys was less than 7 hours and I thought I could do that in a day as I am outside painting. I didn’t finish it in one day but had a little bit left over for the start of the next day.   I loved this book. I loved The Underground Railroad which I read in grad school. Both of these books have similar interacts with reality which I love. I love their tense moments that deliver on the stark realities faced by the characters but that he does not linger too long on the traumas experienced by th