Holocaust book Maus hits bestseller list after Tennessee school board ban

Author Art Spiegelman says decision to ban Pulitzer-winning novel that depicts Jewish people as mice is demented'

The Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale has become a bestseller on Amazon, after a Tennessee school board banned it.

Last week, according to meeting minutes, 10 school board members in McMinn county agreed to remove Maus from the eighth-grade curriculum, citing rough, objectionable language" and sketches of naked women they deemed unsuitable for 13-year-old students.