Join us for the next installment of AARLCC 's book club series as we discuss The Reformatory by Tananarive D ue\, facilitated by Dr. Tameka Hobbs\, Regional Managers for AARLCC.
\nAbout The Reformatory:
\nTwelve-year-old Robbie Stephens\, Jr.\, is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys\, a reformator y\, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister\, Gloria. So begins Robbie&rsquo\;s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory.
\nRobbie has a talent for seeing ghosts\, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother ha s become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys fo rced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing\, but t he haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone an d Blue\, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhi le\, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to f ind a way to get Robbie out before it&rsquo\;s too late.
\nThe R eformatory \;is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award&ndash\;winning author Tananarive Due could\, by p iecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and bri nging his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier Schoo l for Boys to the light in this riveting novel.
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Abou t the Author: \;
\nTananarive Due is an American Book Award and
NAACP Image Award\;&ndash\;winning author\, who was an executive produ
cer on \;Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror \;for Sh
udder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husba
nd\, science fiction author Steven Barnes\, cowrote the graphic novel
\;The Keeper \;and an episode for Season 2 of \;The T
wilight Zone \;for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due
is the author of several novels and two short story collections\, \;