OPINION: “I wanted my book to teach young people things about war I hadn’t been taught or hadn’t wanted to learn when I was a 17-year-old looking to escape a dull suburban life that felt like a prison.”
It was my first time. The experience was not as sexy as the first R-rated movie I snuck into or as violent and arty as the last , nor as trippy as the first time I did psilocybin mushrooms . This first time was a let-down.
But recently, in Ottawa County, Michigan the Board of Education for Hudsonville Public Schools voted 4-3 to ban my bookfrom the high school library. Apparently the place is a hot mess of MAGA intrusionists, an area traditionally very Americana genteel in self-styling and brand but newly mired in the divisive politics that have seen popular and acclaimed books banished from library shelves across the nation.
Books are first and foremost ideas. Shortly after our founding as a country, racial equality became the most dangerous idea engaging the body politic. This remains true today. But other dangerous ideas now apparently include voting rights, bodily autonomy, and the concept that there are more views than one concerning how and why America fights wars.
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