The reformatory: a novel

Name: The reformatory: a novel
Rating: 4.5184049079754605 (163 reviews)
Author: Due, Tananarive
ISBN: 9781982188344

by Due, Tananarive

4.5

(163 ratings)

570 pages11 editions2023Saga PressISBN 9781982188344

Fiction History Horror

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About this book

"Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it's too late." --

Publication Details

Publisher: Saga Press
Published: 2023
Pages: 570
ISBN: 9781982188344
Language: en
Editions: 11

About Due, Tananarive

Tananarive Due (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include ***The Reformatory*** (winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Chautauqua Prize, Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson Award, World Fantasy Award, and a New York Times Notable Book), ***The Wishing Pool and Other Stories***, ***Ghost Summer: Stories***, ***My Soul to Keep***, and ***The Good House***. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored ***Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights***. She was an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary *Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror*. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s "The Twilight Zone" on Paramount Plus, and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film *Horror Noire*. They also co-wrote their Black Horror graphic novel ***The Keeper***, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!" She and her husband live with their son, Jason.