From Pat Conroy on having two of his novels, Beach Music and The Prince of Tides,” criticized in WVA public schools:
Conroy referred to the books as “two of my darlings, which I would place before the altar of God and say, ‘Lord, this is how I found the world you made.’”
Also from the same article from the teacher of the AP class:
“As long as we stay in a 1950s utopian mind-set, we’re not going to get past the 20th century,” he said.
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