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Saying that although 20 of my books happened to be removed this time, this is happening all over florida and the rest of the country. most people who are offended as authors are bipoc in lgbtq authors. from what i understand, the objection to my books is that they were classified by this one parent as adult romance. which is very interesting, because i do not write about romance. and in fact of the books that were challenged, one of them is a book called the storyteller. which is about the holocaust and about the rise of fascism among ordinary germans. there is not even a kiss in that book. so i was quite confused. and it felt a little ironic actually that that was one of the books band here. you said, 20 of your books were panned from this one district in florida. do you know why the storyteller? if it s about the holocaust, obviously it s a difficult subject, it s an emotional subject. was there something that you can identify that would have made it somebody ....
She was shocked to learn one of her book has been banned the booked is called the storyteller. it s a book about the holocaust and a county in florida has now banned it from its school libraries under republican governor ron desantis broad vague new laws governing what kids can and cannot read she responded with this. she said, quote, the storyteller is a novel about the holocaust. it chronicles the growth of anti-semitism and faugsism in nazi germany it was a strange irony a parent wanted this particular book remove because it felt a bit like history repeating itself. that feeling, that stuff maybe we thought we had left behind is rearing its head again, that feeling happening a lot these days last week house republicans held a hearing supposedly on the origins of covid-19. they invited as their expert witness this guy, famous for writing a book that claims among other things that jewish people are genetically evolved, they ....