Sherman Alexie on the various challenges to The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.

At the NCAC:

And of course, some parents object to its sexual content.
Again, the sexual content is that the book mentions masturbation three times and boner four times. There is no sex. Nobody has sex. But in a couple of challenges back East—one in Missouri and one in Georgia—they actually invented sexual scenes. One woman claimed in a newspaper interview that the book contained blow-job lessons. And then another claimed that the lead character ran around grabbing women’s breasts.

Comments

[Elizabeth Fama]

There's a blow-job consultation in LOOKING FOR ALASKA, isn't there? That woman is mixing up all the YA she has never read.

[Leila]

Ahahahaha! Your theory has merit, ma'am!