Título: The Reformatory: A Novel
Autor: Tananarive Due
Sinopse: A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner and a New York Times Notable Book
“You’re in for a treat. The Reformatory is one of those books you can’t put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King
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, Florida
June 1950
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.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “The Reformatory: A Novel”, de Tananarive Due, publicado pela editora Gallery / Saga Press, em 2023 e com 576 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Gallery / Saga Press
Páginas: 576
Ano: 2023-10-31
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1982188340
ISBN13: 9781982188344
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Gallery / Saga Press costumam mergulhar em universos onde o fantástico e o real se entrelaçam, explorando desde reinos mágicos até futuros distópicos marcados por tensões sociais. A narrativa frequentemente traz protagonistas que enfrentam dilemas pessoais intensos, como conflitos de lealdade, poderes sobrenaturais ou a luta por liberdade em sociedades opressoras. O tom varia entre o suspense, o épico e o reflexivo, com ritmo que pode alternar entre a ação acelerada e momentos de introspecção profunda. As sinopses sugerem um interesse por histórias que combinam intriga política, magia codificada e personagens complexos, muitas vezes em cenários que desafiam as fronteiras do tempo e do espaço.
