![]() ![]() It’s funny that when marginalized people ask for consideration (at the bare minimum), we get met with resistance. All we’re asking is to think carefully and considerately. No one is burning books or asking for people to get fired. All they asked was to remove the Oprah’s Book Club sticker. Even when the 100+ writers signed the letter to Oprah, they weren’t asking for the book to be condemned or demonized. Here’s the thing … Critics aren’t asking for the book to stop being published. While Paul’s discourse never overtly makes this statement, she implies that the criticism behind American Dirt is reverse racism. The whole thing makes me angry, and it breaks my heart. People who are not reading the book themselves are telling us what we can and cannot read? Maybe they’re not pulling a book from a classroom, but they’re still shaming people so heavily. You can’t have Jacqueline Woodson in a school library.’ But you can’t stand up for Jeanine Cummins?” Ann Patchett said. American Dirt Quotes Showing 1-30 of 315 That these people would leave their homes, their cultures, their families, even their languages, and venture into tremendous peril, risking their very lives, all for the chance to get to the dream of some faraway country that doesn’t even want them. ![]() We can be appalled that people are saying, ‘You can’t teach those books. This is something the book world, faced with ongoing threats of book banning, should know better than anyone else. ![]() History has shown that no matter how much critics, politicians and activists may try, you cannot prevent people from enjoying a novel. ![]()
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