num_pages: 576
description: A gripping page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as hes 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 FloridaJune 1950Twelve-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 Robbies 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 its too late.The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Awardwinning 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.
language: English
title: The Reformatory
publisher: Gallery / Saga Press