
The Reformatory
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Joniece Abbott-Pratt
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By:
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Tananarive Due
*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * Locus Award Finalist * Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award *
“You’re in for a treat...one of those books you can’t put down...Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King
A gripping “masterpiece” (Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman) 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.
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"Narrator Joniece Abbot-Prat voices Gloria’s strength and despair alongside her chilling performance of Robbie’s terror." (Matthew Galloway)
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Amazing storyline
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Storytelling at its best.
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Joniece Abbott-Pratt
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Innocence Family Love Truth
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I love that this story shows that horror to a black person in America- now and especially at this time during the violent and sadistic Jim Crow south of Florida was racism. In addition to white folks who got to have their way with them as much and as often as they wanted.
Tananarive Due does an amazing job of drawing a tale of just how depraved and cruel America can be to a a black child in a place that seeks to “reform wayward youth”
Excellent horror/historical fiction!
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Immersive, Well told, Perfection
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The Reformatory may be fictional; however, it serves as a reminder that monsters are real.
Enthralling!
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Characters not found anywhere else
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The narration is excellent
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This is definitely better as an audiobook and the narrator does an amazing job conveying the complexity of every character.
devastating and unsettling and SO well written
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