Organizations that promote diversity in literature say such pushback against books that center on marginalized groups in their stories are not surprising, and that those objections deserve scrutiny. The most common factor across banned and challenged books is that the author is from a marginalized or underrepresented group or tells the story from the perspective of a character who is, said Alaina Lavoie, a spokesperson for the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books, which promotes diversity and representation in literature and awarded the book with its top prize in 2019.

Source: Washington Post May 11, 2021 02:56 UTC