* Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * Locus Award Finalist * Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award * “You’re in for a treat...one of those books you can’t put down...Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King 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