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

I'm Tears of Price coming to you from Book Riot. This is episode 274.5, and this week I'm going to be diving into the stacks to talk about two great

pride and prejudice retellings. But first let's hear from our sponsor.

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It is by an author who has been doing the darn thing for Black American fiction, horror fiction for a while, Miss Tannaner Eve, too.

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 a Reformatory

He sent there 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 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 to Nana Reeve Duke 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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