AUTHOR: Alice Walker
ISBN: 0671727796
Plot Summary: Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the life of a black woman and her self-realization after years of abuse and neglect.
Word from the mouse: There's a lot of issues covered in this novel that would indeed help educate others to another way of thinking. Full Review
Complaints: Violence, sexual themes, offensive language
Considered inappropriate because of its "troubling ideas about race relations, man's relationship to God, African history and human sexuality." Challenged by Oakland, California, high school honors class, 1984; rejected for purchase by Hayward, California, school trustees. Banned from high schools in Pennsylvania and West Virginia in the 1990s as “X-rated smut”.
Solonor Says Ban It Because: Whoopi Goldberg. Enough said.
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