Peel board pulls novel after parent complains
Peel's Catholic board has pulled the award-winning novel
Snow Falling on Cedars from high school library shelves after one parent complained about its sexual content. Officials say they have not banned the 1995 novel, but that it won't be accessible to students until a review by a board committee is complete.
The novel, which won the PEN/Faulkner award and the American Booksellers Association book of the year award, contains a few explicit passages, including a detailed description of a married couple's first sexual encounter, as well as sexual relations between two youths.
Tess Kalinowski of the
Toronto Star reports:
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