The Reformatory by Tananarive Due - hardcvr

Hardcover.  WINNER of the Shirley Jackson Award for best new novel!  Yayyyyy!!! If any of you have read Due's excellent short story collection, Ghost Summer, this novel finds its roots in the title story of that collection, which was my favorite in the bunch. 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.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 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