Tennessee school board bans Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust novel, Maus
by Samantha Lock from World news | The Guardian on (#5VF9Y)
Author Art Spiegelman says decision by Mcminn county, which cited inappropriate curse words' and nudity, is demented'
A Tennessee school board has banned a Pulitzer prize-winning novel from its classrooms over eight curse words and an illustration of a naked cartoon mouse.
The graphic novel, Maus: A Survivor's Tale by New Yorker Art Spiegelman, uses hand-drawn illustrations of mice and cats to depict how the author's parents survived Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
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