The Reformatory

*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 * ΓÇ£YouΓÇÖre in for a treat…one of those books you canΓÇÖt put down…Due hit it out of the park.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöStephen King A gripping,page-turning ΓÇ£masterpieceΓÇ¥ (Joe Hill#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman) set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as heΓÇÖs sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injusticefor the livingand the dead. GracetownFlorida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boysa reformatoryfor kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sisterGloria. So begins RobbieΓÇÖs 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 ghostsor 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 missingbut the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and BlueRobbie is learning not just the rulesbut how to survive. MeanwhileGloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before itΓÇÖs too late. The Reformatory is a ΓÇ£hallucinatoryhauntingterrifyingand movingΓÇ¥ (S.A. Cosbybestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed) work of historical fiction written as only American Book AwardΓÇôwinning author Tananarive Due couldby 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.