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Horror. African American Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book</b><br /> <b>"You're in for a treat. <i>The Reformatory</i> is one of those books you can't put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park." 桽tephen King</b><br /> <br /> <b>A gripping, <u class="showmore_hide">page-turning novel 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.</b><br /> Gracetown, Florida<br /> <br /> June 1950<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> <i>The Reformatory</i> is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award杦inning 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.</u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_f8b2a96f');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ></td></tr></table></div><div id="workpagesort_10" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer"><span style="font-size:9px;font-weight:normal;"><a value="all members" value="all members" class="func_lt2_display_ui lt2button btn ltbtn-button-float-right btn-tiny btn-default" type="button" role="button" href="/work/29824759/members/" ><span class="btntxt">all 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good but very heavy story. I like that it mixed historical pieces with paranormal horror. It was a nice mix, to break up the real horror (the people running the school) against haints and things that go bump in the night. It was a nice mix and gave a distraction, at times, to the horrors that are based on historical fact. But it's a tough read, one that broke my heart again and again. I loved it but I also found it rough to get through.<br><br><i>A huge thank you to the author and publisher for providing an e-ARC via Netgalley. This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.</i> <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_275169905" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_275169905"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_275169905" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_275169905" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_275169905"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Trisha_Thomas" target="_top">Trisha_Thomas</a> | Nov 14, 2024 | <a href="/review/275169905"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_270807870" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/29824759" data-workid="29824759" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1982188340.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1982188340.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1982188340.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Tananarive Due's 'The Reformatory' delivers a powerful blend of horror and social commentary, focusing on the brutal racism faced by Black individuals in America. This gripping narrative explores the exploitation of Black people, with heart-wrenching incidents that highlight their unimaginable suffering at the hands of whites. Although I typically don't read Black authors, this book had a compelling influence on me. The horror elements were intense, but the racy and adventurous climax was my favorite part.<br><br>I picked up 'The Reformatory' expecting a horror story, and soon found myself fully engrossed. Every character left a lasting impression, with their suffering and emotions feeling so real that I was filled with anger at the sheer hatred shown towards a race based solely on skin color. This book undeniably deserves 5 stars for its impactful storytelling and thought-provoking themes. Definitely, the book deserves 5 stars. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_270807870" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_270807870"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_270807870" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_270807870" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_270807870"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Sucharita1986" target="_top">Sucharita1986</a> | Aug 29, 2024 | <a href="/review/270807870"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_263683477" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/29824759" data-workid="29824759" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1982188340.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1982188340.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1982188340.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div><b>The Publisher Says: A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he鈥檚 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</b><br><br>June 1950<br><br>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鈥檚 journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory.<br><br>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鈥檚 too late.<br><br><i>The Reformatory</i> is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award鈥搘inning 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.<br><br><b>I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA NETGALLEY. THANK YOU.<br><br>My Review: <i>FINALIST</i></b> FOR THE 2024 LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST HORROR NOVEL! Award will be given at the ceremony on 22 June 2024.<br><br>This is one long story. Long in words, long in facts, long! What it isn't is a dragging mess to read. Ghosts, abused boys, wretched families, the oppressive miasma of Florida's hideous climate...any one of these could've sent me on my way. Instead they all work as a gestalt of Horror, suffering, and terror that left me drained but made me as happy to know this story as an old white man who has never had to fear this kind of abuse and calculated cruelty can be at knowing, from the inside out, what the system I and mine have benefited from did while we were looking anywhere but there.<br><br>The single most awful part is that it's fictionalized, not fiction.<br><br>I just do not know why anyone would, based on skin color or other cosmetic or cultural factors, engineer a life designed to end quickly and prematurely for innocent victims. Othering, a long-standing weapon of mass destruction, is the cruelest and excuses the cruelest means of hurting those unloved. Why we keep burying our knowledge of its occurrence is perfectly clear after reading this story: Admitting that we tolerated this, knowing on some level that it was happening because these people vanished, but not how, not what horrifying acts occurred in our names, is acutely painful.<br><br>So is torture. So is the murder of your loved ones.<br><br>Suddenly the pain of reading about it isn't quite so bad, is it.<br><br>I hope this book wins the Best Horror Locus Award on the twenty-second of June. Pity it won't be Juneteenth. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_263683477" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_263683477"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_263683477" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_263683477" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_263683477"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/richardderus" target="_top">richardderus</a> | May 11, 2024 | <a href="/review/263683477"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_252506547" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/29824759" data-workid="29824759" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1982188340.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1982188340.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1982188340.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:<br><br><a href="https://youtu.be/juz1nuZOlAg" rel="nofollow" target="_top">https://youtu.be/juz1nuZOlAg</a><br><br>Enjoy!</div><div id="rfd_252506547" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_252506547"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_252506547" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_252506547" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_252506547"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/booklover3258" target="_top">booklover3258</a> | May 2, 2024 | <a href="/review/252506547"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_252075475" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/29824759" data-workid="29824759" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1982188340.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1982188340.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1982188340.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Due has long been one of my favorite writers, and this book may be her best yet--at the very least, it is absolutely the best historical horror novel I've ever read. With haunting attention to every detail, and equal parts emotional impact and horror, this story is one that will stay with me for ages to come. Due's characters are more alive than ever--which is saying quite a bit--and even the smallest of them gets such attention as to be either heart-rending or terrifying.<br><br>I'd absolutely recommend this to any horror reader, as well as readers interested in historical fiction (haunting or otherwise) that deals with race and/or the mid-twentieth-century South. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_252075475" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_252075475">1</span> <img title="1 member found this review helpful" id="rvi_252075475" alt="vote" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/voteup-y.gif"></span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_252075475" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_252075475" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span 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If he gasped or sat up too quickly, or even wiped the sleep from his eyes, it was gone like a dream. -Chapter 1</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_quotations"></a>Quotations</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_7ee5f5a5' itemType='1' itemNum='29824759' fieldType='27' name='u_7ee5f5a5' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'quotations' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Well-known, relevant or interesting quotations from the work; Quotation marks are unnecessary.' ><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_lastwords"></a>Last words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_e1303710' itemType='1' itemNum='29824759' fieldType='26' name='u_e1303710' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'lastwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The last sentence of the work. 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Horror. African American Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book</b><br /> <b>"You're in for a treat. <i>The Reformatory</i> is one of those books you can't put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park." 桽tephen King</b><br /> <br /> <b>A gripping, page-turning novel 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.</b><br /> Gracetown, Florida<br /> <br /> June 1950<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> <i>The Reformatory</i> is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award杦inning 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.</div></div><div id="workpagesort_25" class="quickedit light"><div class="nav"><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'libdesc', 'u_7508172a', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Library descriptions</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_7508172a" style="display:block;"><p>No library descriptions found.</p></div></div><div id="workpagesort_70" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Common_Knowledge#LibraryThing_members.27_description" class="blacklink" title="Help"><img style="vertical-align:middle;" class="helpIcon" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/helpq.png" alt="?"></a></span></div><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'ckdesc', 'u_864c29b3', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>LibraryThing members' description</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_864c29b3" style="display:block;"> <div class="workSection"> <table class="fwikiContainerTable ch2"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel">Book description</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_ad9b1f79' itemType='1' itemNum='29824759' fieldType='14' name='u_ad9b1f79' allowmultiple='0' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'description' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'This is a general description. 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