Here’s the report from Rachel Harper at the Democrat-News on last night’s Marshall Public Library Board of Trustees meeting. My favorite bit is a passage quoting John Carton, director of a local youth services agency, speaking on behalf of Fun Home and Blankets:
“He told of the personal identity issues of the characters in the books and the isolation the characters went through.
“He said it requires strength to go through those experiences.
“‘We should encourage those processes, not discourage them,’ Carton said. Isolation can be devastating to kids, he said.”
