Erotic Passage Got This Aclaimed Novel Banned The Huffington Post
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Parental complaints concerning an erotic excerpt in Cuban-American author Cristina García’s critically-acclaimed novel “Dreaming in Cuban” has prompted an Arizona school district to ban the book from classrooms last week, the Associated Press reports.

The novel, which follows the bond between three generations of women during the Cuban Revolution, was taken out of the curriculum by Sierra Vista school administrators after a mother complained her son’s 10th-grade English classroom had been asked to read sexually explicit passages aloud.

A complaint by an unnamed parent, detailing the same scenario, was e-mailed to the Education Action Group Foundation website earlier this week. The non-profit organization posted the content of the e-mail as well as the excerpt and picture of the sexually explicit passage the parent was citing.

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