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Horror meets history in “The Reformatory”

Horror meets history in “The Reformatory”

(Image courtesy of Goodreads. “Terror and racial injustice soak the pages of ‘The Reformatory’.”) Rick Dalton Connector Staff “The Reformatory” is a 2023 novel by Tananarive Due. The story is a tribute to her great-uncle, Robert Stephens, who was killed in 1937 at the Dozier School for Boys, located in the Florida Panhandle. Due combines