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Ghost Eaters
Clay McLeod Chapman
2022
The Reformatory
Tananarive Due · 2023
576 pages
Florida, 1950. Twelve-year-old Robert is sent to a brutal reform school after a scuffle with a white teenager. He can see ghosts, including the boys who died there, and the warden wants to use that ability. Outside, his sister works with a lawyer to bring him home.
Tropes
Southern Gothic, Ghost Story, Coming of Age, Small Town Secrets, Creeping Dread, Survival
Content warnings: child abuse, sexual violence
