Haley Newlin’s Reviews > The Reformatory > Status Update

“The sheriff was always on the side of white people, until white people tried to help Negroes.”

“I’ll tell you honestly, Mr. Loehmann…this doesn’t feel to me like the country we say we are.”

Anne Powell realizing a hard truth Black and Jewish people have always known

Even the “decent” white people fall for lies intended to distract them, like that the NAACP is communist

For the first time, Gloria understood the liberation of having nothing left to lose

The Klan took bets on if Gloria was inside while the cabin burned and if she’d come running out on fire

This scene is so frightening and infuriating

After the Klan burns the cabin, the people of Lower Spruce stand on their porches, armed and ready

“They don’t care who it is—man, woman, or child. Once it starts—they don’t care. They’ll treat you like you ain’t from the same God as them. Like they the devil.”

Miz Lottie on the burning by the klan and mobs of white men

“There would be burning tonight.”

Gloria’s worst fear - the klan

Blue’s revenge and escape plan

Huge twist about the haint Warden Haddock wants most of all. I didn’t see this coming