Tananarive Due's The Reformatory

Join Mel and Lisa as we discuss Tananarive Due's The Reformatory. When 12-year-old Robert Stephens is sent to Gracetown School For Boys, a reformatory, he finds himself in a nightmare. Like many children in Gracetown, Florida, he has a special ability to see ghosts, a "talent" which the warden exploits, charging Robbie with the task of getting rid of the "haints" of the boys who died because of the warden's cruel treatment. 

 

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Recommended in this episode: Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher and Julia Alvarez's The Cemetery of Untold Stories

 

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