Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is being challenged by the Federal Way school district in Washington. The reason? A passage in the book includes a boy and a girl having sex. The shock!! The horror!!
[A student] told his mother, Lori Bridges, that [another] student drew an explicit picture of a boy and girl having sex as part of a class drawing exercise on the book.
Ah, well, then we should ban this book forthwith. Because, you know, boys only draw pictures of people having sex when spurred on by a work of literature.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.