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I'm Tears of Price coming to you from Book Riot and this is episode 284.5. And this week I'm going to be diving into the stacks to talk about two great

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Books for sponsoring this episode. 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 Tanana Reeve too. So it's titled The Reformatory and it follows 12-year-old Robbie Stevens Jr who was sentenced to six months at the

Gracetown 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

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