News about Khaled Hosseini

According to the researchers, politicians and newly formed parent's organizations are pressuring schools to remove texts from classrooms, which is similar to the anti-Communist McCarthy period and moral purges of the early 1980s. The banned books were mainly young adult fiction, with some of them dealing with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer protagonists, as well as those focused on race and identity. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe, the most commonly banned book, was cut by 41 school districts. It traces the author's 'journey of self-identity' and "what it means to be nonbinary and asexual."