{"id":12805,"date":"2023-06-22T11:39:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=12805"},"modified":"2023-06-22T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:45:33","slug":"heavy-an-american-memoir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/heavy-an-american-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2022 &#8211; Heavy: An American Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<div>\n                                            \n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/author\/\">2022 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/title\/\">2022 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><hr \/><\/p>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2023\/06\/heavy-an-american-memoir.jpg\" alt=\"heavy: an american memoir\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2390\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b1964090~S12\">Held at Marshall University (Drinko General Collection &#8211; E185.97.L394 A3 2018)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2022<\/h2>\n<p>The Wentzville (MO) R-IV School District created a committee to review challenges to several books, including  <strong>The Bluest Eye<\/strong> by Toni Morrison; <strong>All Boys Aren\u2019t Blue<\/strong> by George M. Johnson; <strong>Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic<\/strong> by Alison Bechdel; <strong>Heavy: An American Memoir<\/strong> by Kiese Laymon; <strong>Gabi, A Girl in Pieces<\/strong> by Isabel Quintero; <strong>Modern Romance: An Investigation<\/strong> by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg; <strong>Invisible Girl: A Novel<\/strong> by Lisa Jewell; and <strong>Lawn Boy<\/strong> by Jonathan Evison. Ignoring the committee\u2019s recommendations, the all-white school board voted to ban the book. The ACLU of Missouri sued the school district on behalf of two students.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>June 22, 2023<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12805","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12809,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12805\/revisions\/12809"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}