Título: The Reformatory: A Novel
Autor: Tananarive Due
Sinopse: A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, a New York Times Notable Book, and a Locus Award Finalist
“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 “masterpiece” (Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman) 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 “hallucinatory, haunting, terrifying, and moving” (S.A. Cosby, bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed) 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 S&S/Saga Press, em 2024 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: S&S/Saga Press
Páginas: 576
Ano: 2024
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1982188359
ISBN13: 9781982188351
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora S&S/Saga Press costumam transportar o leitor para mundos onde a fantasia e a especulação científica se entrelaçam com conflitos pessoais intensos e tramas políticas complexas. Em suas obras, personagens enfrentam desafios que vão desde batalhas épicas e mistérios ancestrais até dilemas existenciais em cenários que variam de castelos medievais a paisagens pós-apocalípticas. O ritmo das narrativas alterna entre aventuras cheias de ação e momentos de tensão psicológica, com um tom que ora é sombrio e dramático, ora irônico e sarcástico. O catálogo revela também uma atenção especial a relações humanas multifacetadas, incluindo romances que se desenvolvem lentamente em meio a intrigas e batalhas, e histórias que exploram a identidade e a luta por poder.
