Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books
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- Vorbestellbar
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- Erwartet am 20. Juni 2024
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- CHF 18.00
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- Vorbestellbar
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- CHF 18.00
Beschreibung des Verlags
‘A story that’s as furious as it is tender’ EMILY HENRY on The Change
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From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship.
In Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean has decided to cleanse the town’s reading habits. All banned books have been removed from public spaces, and the townspeople are only allowed to read books Lula has deemed ‘appropriate’.
But a small group refuse to be told what they can and can’t read.
The revolution is coming …
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Praise for Kirsten Miller:
‘Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too’ JAMES PATTERSON
‘A roar of rage … I loved it’ MARIAN KEYES
‘I couldn’t put it down’ ERIN KELLY
‘Bewitching and satisfying’ THE INDEPENDENT
Reviews
Praise for Kirsten Miller and The Change:
‘A brilliant book. Thrilling, fast paced and original. I couldn’t stop reading’
Sarah Morgan
‘It gave me the same energy as Lessons in Chemistry . . . Loved it’
Harriet Tyce
‘A feminist thriller for our times’
Prima
‘Like nothing you’ve ever read before’
Red
About the author
Kirsten Miller grew up in a small town in the mountains of North Carolina. At seventeen, she hit the road and moved to New York City, where she lives to this day. Kirsten's first adult novel, The Change, is a feel-good feminist revenge fantasy and was selected by The Guardian, Prima, and Woman & Home in their ‘Books of Year’ round ups. Lula’s Little Library of Banned Books is her second adult novel, and explores book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This incisive comedy from Miller (The Change) finds a Georgia town transformed amid a fight over book bans. Lula Dean, a restless empty nester who's starved for attention, finds purpose by banning books she deems inappropriate for children, among them Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl and Toni Morrison's Beloved. Furthering her crusade, Lula stocks a makeshift lending library in front of her house with "appropriate" titles like The Southern Belle's Guide to Etiquette. Lindsay Underwood, a lesbian teen, takes action by sneaking banned books into the lending library under the cover of dust jackets belonging to Lula's approved books. As various townspeople read the works Lula meant to ban, they start changing their lives and the town for the better (a formerly subservient woman outs her husband for secretly collecting Nazi memorabilia; a high school football star comes to accept his gay older brother; and a group of teens rally against the town's Confederate monuments). The story climaxes with a heated race for town mayor between Lindsay's mother, Beverly, who vehemently opposes the book bans, and Lula. While some of the plot turns strain credulity, they make for a clever send-up of book banners' misplaced fears. Miller's fans will flock to her latest page-turner as social critique.
