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Award-winning author Tananarive Due will discuss her new novel, "The Reformatory."
Here is your chance to meet the one, the only, Tananarive Due!
Due will discuss her much-anticipated novel, The Reformatory, with Nsenga Burton, founder of The Burton Wire.
The Reformatory is a gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he is sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.
Tananarive Due is an award-winning, bestselling author of sixteen books, including My Soul to Keep, and Joplin’s Ghost. A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award.
Dr. Nsenga Burton, former editor for The Root, is the founder of, The Burton Wire, a news blog covering news of the African Diaspora. Burton is the Southern Regional Director of the National Center for Entrepreneurship at Clark Atlanta University.
Complimentary refreshments.
Books will be available for sale and signing from Charis Books.
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A New York Times Notable Book
“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
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr.