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Maus, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, hit the top of Amazon’s bestseller lists in multiple categories after a Tennessee school district removed it from their curriculum.
The unanimous vote by the McMinn County, Tennessee School Board to remove Spiegelman’s b00k from their 8th-grade curriculum drew outrage. Transcripts of the school board meeting showed the members discussing their objections to language within the book like “God damn” and a depiction of a nude woman.
Spiegelman, a cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, created Maus to tell the story of his family’s experiences during the Holocaust, specifically his father. The book depicts Polish Jews like Spiegelman’s family as mice and the Nazis as cats. He blasted the school board’s move as a “daftly myopic response” to the content in his book.
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