The Reformatory
Tananarive Due · 2023
How long does it take to read The Reformatory?
About 11 hours 31 minutes
576 pages at 50 pages an hour. 24 days at 30 minutes a day. Work out your own time.
Gracetown, Florida - June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, 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 terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it’s too late. The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due could, 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 the light in this riveting novel.
How long does it take to read The Reformatory?
The Reformatory is 576 pages, so it takes about 11 hours 31 minutes to read at an average pace of 50 pages an hour. A relaxed reader at 35 pages an hour needs about 16 hours 27 minutes; a fast reader at 70 pages an hour, about 8 hours 14 minutes.
How many days to read The Reformatory at 20 minutes a day?
About 35 days, reading 20 minutes a day at 50 pages an hour.
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