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Join us for the next installment of AARLCC's book club series
Join us for the next installment of AARLCC's book club series as we discuss The Reformatory by Tananarive Due, facilitated by Dr. Tameka Hobbs, Regional Managers for AARLCC.
About The Reformatory:
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.
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.
The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award–winning 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.
About the Author:
Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award–winning author, who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel The Keeper and an episode for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She is also coauthor of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due).
AGE GROUP: | Teens | New Adults | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Discussion/Lecture | Clubs & Groups | Books |
| Mon, Mar 10 | 10:00PM to 8:00PM |
| Tue, Mar 11 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Wed, Mar 12 | 10:00PM to 8:00PM |
| Thu, Mar 13 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Fri, Mar 14 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sat, Mar 15 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sun, Mar 16 | Closed |
