In observance of Banned Books Week, here's an excerpt from The Boy from Clearwater, the story of a Taiwanese teenager who was imprisoned for a decade for attending a meeting of a book club.
It is the not too distant future, and libraries have armed themselves to protect books and other media from the federal government’s Media Betterment Committee. Iku Kasahara has settled into her job on the Library Task Force, but the MBC and other forces haven’t given up their battle to stop libraries from keeping speech, all […]