Among the books removed were 'Choke' by Chuck Palahniuk, a novel about a sex addict con man and 'Juliet Takes a Breath' by Gabby Rivera, about a Puerto Rican lesbian’s struggles with identity.
on shelves while a superintendent reviews them, the Maine School Administrative District board voted on Monday to bypass its own policy and immediately pull the eight titles, theby Chuck Palahniuk, a novel about a sex addict con man;Lucky, a memoir about the author’s experience of being raped while
in college. “This is a safety issue and I have no problem pulling them for now to review them,” board member Lyndsey Atkinson said. Maine typically used to see about one book challenged every year, thereports, but 2022 brought 12 challenges and there were eight in the first two months of 2023 alone.
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