click to enlarge HISTORICAL HAUNTS
Each year, Spokane is Reading chooses a book for a series of community-wide reading events, and this year’s selection is Tananarive Due’s historical thriller The Reformatory. Set in Jim Crow Florida, the novel follows 12-year-old Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school where he sees and learns of the horrors of racism and injustice for the living — and the dead. Due will be in Spokane for two free events on Thursday, Oct. 23 at the Spokane Valley and Central libraries to discuss The Reformatory and answer audience questions.
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