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THE REFORMATORY
Gracetown, Florida, summer 1950, Robert is sent to the Gracetown school for boys for kicking a white boy's leg, and there he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.
Set in Jim Crow Florida, The Reformatory tells the story of young Robert Stephens Jr., who for a trivial scuffle with a white boy is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys, a segregated reformatory that is a chamber of horrors, and is haunted by the boys that have died there.
Determined to escape before he becomes a haint after falling victim to the school's Warden, Robert enlists the help of the school's haints, but the dead have their own motivations.
A riveting novel of historical fiction and social horror, this is Due's masterpiece and an elogy for the great-uncle her family lost to the Dozier School for boys that this is inspired by.
TANANARIVE DUE is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is 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 "The Twilight Zone" on CBS All Access. 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 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 is married to author Steven Barnes, with whom she collaborates on screenplays. They live with their son, Jason, and two cats.
Determined to escape before he becomes a haint after falling victim to the school's Warden, Robert enlists the help of the school's haints, but the dead have their own motivations.
A riveting novel of historical fiction and social horror, this is Due's masterpiece and an elogy for the great-uncle her family lost to the Dozier School for boys that this is inspired by.
TANANARIVE DUE is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is 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 "The Twilight Zone" on CBS All Access. 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 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 is married to author Steven Barnes, with whom she collaborates on screenplays. They live with their son, Jason, and two cats.
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