Book Club: Tananarive Due’s “The Reformatory”

Last week Authentically Detroit pulled up to Next Chapter Books for a book club discussion!

Donna and Orlando were joined by a live audience inside of the family-owned bookstore on Detroit’s east side. Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA.

A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies.

Due’s latest novel, “The Reformatory,” is a gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida. 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.

If you’re interested in learning more about Tananarive Due and The Reformatory, click here.

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