Borrowed from CLP on 2/21/23 for reading with Ken Boas class on banning books on March 16, 2023
Ewww
Sad - but the writing is so light, so tender, the sadness is ok somehow.
Racism
The white world. The world where HOPE is allowed to live. So he’s an immigrant in his own country, because he has to leave his birthplace in search of a dream. p. 216
Deaths from alcohol.
Magical realism: the death of Stupid Horse in Turtle Lake, and the monster tree whose branches do not break when climbed, even those at the top. pp.
Banned for masturbation and other teenage vices.
He loves geometry - and masturbation, p. 25
