# Event Details - **Event Name**: Good Girlfriends Book Club: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: The Good Girlfriends are leaving no genre unread with our book club! Join us as we unpack The Reformatory by Tananarive Due.About this Event https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/9f058230-1d7a-11f1-a543-47654153a477-rimg-w592-h740-dcec857d-gmir.jpg Born from our monthly Summer Reading Series, a group of smart and funny women came together, united by their love for books and good company, and thus the Good Girlfriends Book Club was created. Now we're inviting you to join the club!Join us on Friday, April 17th at 6pm as we discuss Shelara's pick, The Reformatory by Tananarive Due.About The Reformatory:A gripping, page-turning “masterpiece” (Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman) set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s 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.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.Purchase the book here. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bridgeport/good-girlfriends-book-club-the-reformatory-by-tananarive-due/100001984515919537 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Bridgeport - **state**: CT - **country**: United States - **location**: Kindred Thoughts Bookstore - **lat**: 41.178217 - **long**: -73.18934899999999 - **full address**: Kindred Thoughts Bookstore, 1001 Main Street, Bridgeport, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Good Girlfriends Book Club: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/5ea8d14867e06f274c6ee8ed1cd91334866c05106509b74fefaa570e6bdef59d-rimg-w1080-h1350-dce98279-gmir.jpg?v=1773254799 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Good Girlfriends Book Club: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due being held? - **A:** Good Girlfriends Book Club: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due takes place on Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Kindred Thoughts Bookstore, 1001 Main Street, Bridgeport, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Good Girlfriends Book Club: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due? - **A:** Good Girlfriends Book Club: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due is organized by Kindred Thoughts Book Club. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Good Girlfriends Book Club: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/5ea8d14867e06f274c6ee8ed1cd91334866c05106509b74fefaa570e6bdef59d-rimg-w1080-h1350-dce98279-gmir.jpg?v=1773254799", "startDate": "2026-04-17T18:00:00-04:00", "endDate": "2026-04-17T20:00:00-04:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/bridgeport/good-girlfriends-book-club-the-reformatory-by-tananarive-due/100001984515919537", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Kindred Thoughts Bookstore", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "1001 Main Street", "postalCode": "06604", "addressLocality": "Bridgeport", "addressRegion": "CT", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "41.178217", "longitude": "-73.18934899999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "The Good Girlfriends are leaving no genre unread with our book club! 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