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Maya Yang in New York

Holocaust book Maus hits bestseller list after Tennessee school board ban

Two books of the graphic novel Maus by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman are pictured in this illustration in Pasadena, California.
American cartoonist Art Spiegelman says ‘I’ve met so many young people who … have learned things from my book’. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

The Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust graphic novel Maus: A Survivor’s Tale has become a bestseller on Amazon, after a Tennessee school board banned it.

Last week, according to meeting minutes, 10 school board members in McMinn county agreed to remove Maus from the eighth-grade curriculum, citing “rough, objectionable language” and sketches of naked women they deemed unsuitable for 13-year-old students.

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