![]() ![]() While the characters have minimal physical description, and race is possibly deliberately hard to discern, author Dave Connis grapples mightily with issues of power and privilege, control, consent, and collaboration-with echoes of overtones, the imaginary Civil War-era library adventure novel which inspires Clara to action. We read with all that our eyes have seen and all our hearts have felt since birth.” When you love a book, the thought that it could be seen as dangerous and detrimental to others is viscerally painful, and when super-library-volunteer and scholarship student Clara Evans accidentally finds that her elite Tennessee prep school is banning fifty titles in an ongoing censorship spree, she is inspired to create an underground library for her fellow students. We read with all the layers that make us who we are acting as filters. ![]() ![]() “The problem is, we bring ourselves to the pages. ![]()
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