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The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
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"The Reformatory is one of those books you can't put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park."—Stephen King

A gloriously creepy Deep South horror story based on the infamous Dozier School for boys, perfect for fans of The Only Good Indians and Nothing But Blackened Teeth.

Jim Crow Florida, 1950.

Twelve-year-old Robert Stephens Jr., who for a trivial scuffle with a white boy is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there.

In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts–only they have their own motivations...

©2024 Tananarive Due (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio African American Historical Fiction Horror Scary Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt Tear-jerking Thought-Provoking

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This is a story about injustice, friendship and family love. A story that will stay with you long after you have read it, highly recommend.

Beautifully written and narrated...

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Thoroughly enjoyed this book, 5 stars for all elements but I think the narration was maybe some of the best I’ve ever heard, captured the characters so well and well paced.
Highly recommend

Beautiful story and narration

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I couldn't put this down at all. Absolutely fantastic read, and very informative on how the time period was back then

Fantastic, beautiful book

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This is a fabulous book, I can’t praise it highly enough. It has the feeling of an epic movie - really evocative descriptions of places and people. I particularly liked that the characters are detailed and real, not two dimensional (even the worst of the worst of the worst ones). I thought it would take forever to get through 20 hours of listening, but it still felt like it was over too quickly! Excellent narrator too.

Exceptional and heartbreaking

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The reader emersed you into the south. Very dark and disturbingly heartbreaking. It takes you on an emotional ride through the inequalities in every aspect of the time.

It was a book unlike any other I have read. I really enjoyed the friendships and love that came from all different worlds.

Spookily Heart breaking

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