The Reformatory
Tananarive Due


Paperback | Nov 2023 | Titan Books | 9781803366531 | 608pp | 198x129mm | GEN | AUD$27.99, NZD$32.99

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephen Jones 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, Florida, summer 1950.

Robert Stephen Jones Jr. is sent to Gracetown School for Boys for kicking a white boy’s leg. But the Gracetown School for Boys isn’t just any reform school. As Robert finds, it’s a segregated school that is haunted from the boys who 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...

The Reformatory is an eerie, frightening novel that explores the horrors of our history.