About this Event
Brucnhin with Author: Tananarive Due, Author of The Reformatory
Brunchin' with the Author is an intimate brunch experience where you can meet BIPOC authors and connect with fellow local bookworms. Hosted by Jessica, founder/host of Literature Noir, BLK Events LA, and Gracen Fling.
This event will allow you to ask questions directly to the author, create community with fellow readers, and experience an amazing brunch at Joyce Soul & Sea, Black-owned restaurant in Downtown Los Angeles.
This month, we're hosting bestselling author, horror, and speculative fiction pioneer Tananarive Due.
Each ticket includes:
- Your meal (which includes starters, entree, and sides + 1-2 beverages - alcoholic beverages will not be covered. This is a family style meal.
- Exclusive goodie bag with bookish merch
If you have allergies and vegan/vegetarian, please email [email protected]
About The Reformatory
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 “hallucinatory, haunting, terrifying, and moving” (S.A. Cosby, bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed) 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.
About Tananarive Due
TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA.
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, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include The Reformatory (winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Chautauqua Prize, Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson Award, World Fantasy Award, and a New York Times Notable Book), The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.
She was an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s "The Twilight Zone" on Paramount Plus, and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire. They also co-wrote their Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!" She and her husband live with their son, Jason.
Purchase your tickets for Sintober's other events here:
- Sinners on the Silver Screen at The Miracle Theater
- Club Juke: A Sinners Juke Joint at Bloom Ranch
- Sinners Readers Soirée at Offhand Wine Bar
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Joyce, 770 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, United States
USD 81.88 to USD 87.21
