The Reformatory A Novel

Tananarive Due, Joniece Abbott-Pratt

eAudio - 2023

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner and a New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award "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... more