Banned Books 2017 – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Marshall University does not ban books! The information is provided to let people know what has been banned/challenged elsewhere.

2017

Retained in the adult nonfiction collection at the Toronto Public Library in Ontario, Canada, despite complaints about the novel’s profanity, poor grammar and sentence structure. The memoir chronicles the author’s stewardship of younger brother Christopher “Toph” Eggers, following the cancer-related deaths of his parents.

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Ron Titus, titus@marshall.edu
304-696-6575

Last updated

July 12, 2017