Natalie Davis 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇺🇦<p>Under Ron DeSantis's book crackdown, 20 books by Jodi Picoult just got banned at one county's schools. One of them is "The Storyteller," about the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor.</p><p>"Picoult said she’s puzzled by the ban, because she does not “write adult romance,” as objections filed against her books claimed.</p><p>“Most of the books pulled do not even have a single kiss in them,” Picoult told us. “They do, however, include gay characters, and issues like racism, disability, abortion rights, gun control, and other topics that might make a kid think differently from their parents.”</p><p>“We have actual proof that marginalized kids who read books about marginalized characters wind up feeling less alone,” Picoult continued. “Books bridge divides between people. Book bans create them.”"</p><p>"Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too." - Heinrich Heine</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/RonDeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RonDeSantis</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Florida</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BookBan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BookBan</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/JodiPicoult" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JodiPicoult</span></a></p><p>Gift article 🔗: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/10/ron-desantis-book-bans-martin-county-jodi-picoult/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjMwODExMTUiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjc4NDI0NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjc5NzE2Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE2Nzg0MjQ0MDAsImp0aSI6ImU1YmNlZDIwLTFhNzctNDE3Yi1iNDc1LWViY2JjZTc2NmM4OSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDIzLzAzLzEwL3Jvbi1kZXNhbnRpcy1ib29rLWJhbnMtbWFydGluLWNvdW50eS1qb2RpLXBpY291bHQvIn0.VUwlTM1gEyjexjfoVaIkLPOOKo2sbsRDZ1Jb3O9yLzQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/opinions/20</span><span class="invisible">23/03/10/ron-desantis-book-bans-martin-county-jodi-picoult/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjMwODExMTUiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjc4NDI0NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjc5NzE2Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE2Nzg0MjQ0MDAsImp0aSI6ImU1YmNlZDIwLTFhNzctNDE3Yi1iNDc1LWViY2JjZTc2NmM4OSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDIzLzAzLzEwL3Jvbi1kZXNhbnRpcy1ib29rLWJhbnMtbWFydGluLWNvdW50eS1qb2RpLXBpY291bHQvIn0.VUwlTM1gEyjexjfoVaIkLPOOKo2sbsRDZ1Jb3O9yLzQ</span></a></p>