Due, Tananarive
$28.99
$19.99
/
Sale
The Reformatory -- Tananarive Due, Hardcover
Shipping calculated at checkout.
138 in stock, ready to ship
A New York Times Notable Book
"You're in for a treat. The Reformatory is one of those books you can't put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park." --Stephen King A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead. 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. The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award-winning author Tananarive Due could, by piecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and bringing his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier School for Boys to the light in this riveting novel.
Author: Tananarive Due
Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press
Published: 10/31/2023
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781982188344
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2023 pg. 96
Booklist 08/01/2023 pg. 44
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 08/21/2023
"You're in for a treat. The Reformatory is one of those books you can't put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park." --Stephen King A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead. 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. The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award-winning author Tananarive Due could, by piecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and bringing his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier School for Boys to the light in this riveting novel.
Author: Tananarive Due
Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press
Published: 10/31/2023
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781982188344
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2023 pg. 96
Booklist 08/01/2023 pg. 44
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 08/21/2023
About the Author
Tananarive Due is an American Book Award-winning, Essence bestselling author of sixteen books, including the Blood Colony, The Living Blood, The Good House, Joplin's Ghost, and Devil's Wake. She was also a contributor to Jonathan Maberry's middle grade anthology, Don't Turn Out the Lights. She has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award. She teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit her website TananariveDue.com.
Product Tags:
20th Century, African American & Black, BEST SELLER, Books, Books › Subjects › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical › 20th Century, Fiction, Fiction - Horror, Genre Fiction, Hardcover, Historical, Historical fiction, Horror, Literature & Fiction, S&s/Saga Press, Subjects, Tananarive Due
Contact form
Fill this out if you need to get in touch with me!