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The signed, limited edition of Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory is in stock and ready to ship.

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Rather than offer up a plot description of Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory, we’re going to bracket the book’s features with a listing of the overwhelming praise it’s garnered.

“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

“One of the best novels published in 2023. A superb mix of literary fiction, horror, and historical fiction.”
—Gabino Iglesias, NPR Books

“The Reformatory is a masterpiece—a new American classic of the uncanny. I was gripped from the first lines to the catch-your-breath desperation of the final pages. Even in the tale’s grimmest moments, Tananarive Due insists on the almost supernatural power of simple kindness. You have to read this book.”
—Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box, and King Sorrow

“Moby Dick might have flipped America on its back to show the rotting underbelly, but The Reformatory’s looking just as closely at our bad history, and somehow finding the heart beating underneath it all. This is the novel I’ve been waiting for. It breaks your heart, but it also holds it together.”
—Stephen Graham Jones, bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw

“An epic novel of horror and real history. Tananarive Due displays all her powers as a master of the form, there’s frights and chills and also so much love. I tore through this book. This novel is a straight up masterpiece, it should be read and remembered for a long time.”
—Victor LaValle, bestselling author of The Changeling and Lone Women

“Tananarive Due at her best. Hallucinatory, haunting, terrifying and moving, a tour de force of a novel.”
—S. A. Cosby, bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed, Razorblade Tears, and Blacktop Wasteland

Limited Edition Features: 

• Printed offset in two colors (black and Pantone®) on 60# archival quality paper;
• Printed on 70# Finch paper;
• Full-color signature page;
• Wraparound full-color dust jacket illustration;
• Four full-color full-page interior illustrations by John Jennings;
• Smyth-sewn binding;
• Cloth covered boards;
• Housed in a custom slipcase, stamped in two colors;

From Publishers Weekly (Starred Review):

“This harrowing, supernaturally inflected depiction of racism’s unbridled cruelty and the generational trauma it can inflict is sure to stick in readers’ minds.”

From Booklist (Starred Review):

“Due brings the horrors of Jim Crow Florida to life, with human monsters who are far more chilling than anything supernatural. With fully realized characters and well-placed twists, she ratchets up the tension until the final, extraordinary showdown.” 

Library Journal (Starred Review):

“Incredibly written and performed historical horror that, though heartbreaking, might give modern readers a spark of hope.”

From Kirkus (Starred Review):

“No matter how much you’ll want to look away from the callous injustice and horrific abuse depicted here, this period thriller’s investment of urgency and imagination keeps you riveted…Due brings her own gifts in the supernatural-fantasy genre as well as elements of her own family history (the book is dedicated in part to her great-uncle, who died at Dozier in 1937) to this vividly realized page-turner, which is at once an ingenious ghost story, a white-knuckle adventure, and an illuminating if infuriating look back at a shameful period in American jurisprudence that, somehow, doesn’t seem so far away.”