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Texas Monthly – How Two Texas Bookstores Are Leading the Fight Against Book Bans

Texas Monthly – How Two Texas Bookstores Are Leading the Fight Against Book Bans

Posted on October 16, 2023

When I published The Fight for Midnight, my debut young adult novel, this summer, the first two events I held to promote the book were at BookPeople, the venerable downtown Austin independent bookstore that opened in 1970, and Blue Willow Bookshop, a West Houston bookstore with large selections of children’s and young adult literature. The book is a coming-of-age story set at the Texas Capitol during the 2013 legislative fight over abortion restrictions; the protagonist is a seventeen-year-old rising senior who comes to the Capitol because he’s invited by a girl he has a crush on. The book contains no sex or explicit discussion of sex, and the only mentions of drug use come because the protagonist feels alienated from his friends when they start…

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