You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host, Patricia Elsie Tuttle, and hey now, it's my backlist, get my books read all day. This is episode number 253 and a half and today I'm going to

talk about a couple backlist titles that I'm really excited to share with you.

Hi everyone. Well I have not yet jumped on the bread baking wagon though I really do love to bake

However, I've been getting a lot of reading done during this time of physical distancing. I know it's

really hard to be productive right now for a lot of people and you don't have to.

You don't have to be. It's a pandemic. We don't have to do anything except stay home and be safe.

We're all doing the best we can right now, but for me, I have to keep busy in order to preserve my sanity,

so I am doing a lot of reading.

But if you're not like me in that way that's totally okay too.

We all have different ways of coping.

That being said, I have a couple fiction titles this week to share with you but before I get back to my backlist picks let's hear from today's sponsor.

Today's episode is brought to you by Gallery Books.

I'm super excited to talk about this next one.

It is by an author who has been doing the darn thing

for Black American fiction, horror fiction, for a while, Miss Tannanarive do.

So it's titled The Reformatory and it follows 12-year-old Robbie Stevens Jr. who was sentenced

to six months at the Grays town School for Boys, which is, you guessed it. J older sister Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the tears of the Jim Crow South and the very

real horror of the school they call the Reformatory. So the Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction,

written as only American book award-winning author

Tananorib du could. She does this 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 Light.

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