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What's
up,
Plot
on
the
Rocks
family?
It's
your
girl
Alicia
here,
and
we
are
trying
something
new
with
preview
episodes.
So
instead
of
waiting
for
the
full
episode
to
premiere,
since
we
only,
you
know,
do
our
episodes
bi-weekly,
in
between,
we're
going
to
be
dropping
these
mini
episodes
in
between
regular
scheduled
programming,
so
little
ones
or
three-minute
sound
bites
to
give
you
a
preview
of
what
is
coming
next.
And
for
our
first
ever
preview
episode,
we're
going
to
be
talking
about
the
reformatory
by
Tanana
Reeve
Do.
Now,
before
we
get
into
the
nitty-gritty
of
it,
I
do
want
to
give
you
guys
a
little
bit
of
a
content
warning
because
the
topics
of
the
Reformatory
are
incredibly
heavy.
It
deals
with
racism,
racial
violence,
child
abuse,
and
child
sexual
abuse.
These
are
some
incredibly
difficult
and
disturbing
things
to
read
and
talk
about,
so
please
take
care
of
yourselves
and
decide
whether
this
is
a
book
you
are
comfortable
in
engaging
with.
Now,
with
that
being
said,
this
is
honestly
probably
one
of
our
favorite
books
that
we
have
read
this
season.
It's
an
incredibly
important
book.
We
cried.
We
had
to
take
breaks
in
between
because
of
how
heavy
the
topics
were.
I
will
say
there
was
a
little
bit
of
a
happy
cry
at
the
end,
so
there
is
a
happy
ending.
But
I
think
it's
safe
to
say
that
this
book
had
us
all
kind
of
stressed
out.
If
you
haven't
read
the
Reformatory,
it
follows
12-year-old
Robbie
Stevens,
a
black
boy
living
in
Jim
Crow
Air,
Florida,
who
gets
sent
to
a
reform
school
after
trying
to
protect
his
sister
from
a
white
teenage
boy
who
makes
a
pass
at
her.
Now,
this
boy
happens
to
be
the
son
of
the
most
prominent
landowner
in
the
county,
and
because
of
this,
Robert
is
also
kind
of
made
an
example
out
of
when
he
is
sent
to
this
school.
Now,
this
is
a
ghost
story
at
its
core
because
the
reform
school
is
riddled
with
ghosts
in
there.
But
the
deeper
you
get
into
this
book,
the
more
you
realize
that
the
supernatural
horror
is
sitting
right
alongside
something
that
is
much
more
terrifying
because
of
what
is
real.
This
really
goes
into
what
is
scarier,
the
ghosts
or
the
real
life
evil
that
people
are
capable
of
inflicting
upon
each
other.
And
that
is
something
that
I
think
got
us
all.
And
one
thing
about
Robbie
is
that
he
can
see
the
dead,
which
should
feel
like
this
incredible
supernatural
ability.
He
uses
this
to,
you
know,
communicate
with
his
mother
who
just
recently
passed
away.
But
at
the
reformatory,
it's
something
that
he
has
to
use
to
literally
survive.
Tanana
Reeves
does
such
an
incredible
job
of
blending
supernatural
horror
with
the
very
real
horrors
of
racism,
violence,
and
the
history
surrounding
these
institutions.
Because
this
book
is
actually
inspired
by
a
real
life
reform
school,
the
Dozier
School
in
Florida,
that
one
of
Tanana
Reeves'
relatives
actually
attended.
And
this
school
didn't
close
down
until
2011.
So
a
school
that
inflicted
such
horrors
on
these
children
only
closed
within
the
past
10
to
15
years.
There's
so
much
more
that
I
want
to
say
about
this
book,
but
I
don't
want
to
give
everything
away,
so
you'll
have
to
tune
in
to
the
full
episode.
So
grab
your
drink,
get
comfortable,
and
join
us
for
a
conversation
about
the
Reformatory
by
Tananda
Reeve
Do.
The
full
episode
premieres
next
Friday
on
August
28th
on
Plot
on
the
Rocks.
And
since
we're
trying
something
new
here,
let
us
know
what
you
think
about
these
mini
previews.
And
something
to
think
about
for
the
next
episode.
What's
scarier?
The
ghosts
or
the
living?
