Professor who penned ‘banned’ book: If it isn’t in a library, ‘it might as well not exist’

Professor who penned ‘banned’ book: If it isn’t in a library, ‘it might as well not exist’

"...Ashley Hope Pérez’s novel “Out of Darkness,” a love story about a Mexican-American girl and black boy in the 1930s, currently is “banned” by 24 school districts in the U.S.

...Sounds fairly innocuous. 

But a bit further down we see that last year a mother “read a passage from the book at a board meeting that referred to anal sex” (emphasis added).
“I do not want my children to learn about anal sex in middle school,” the mom, whose child attends the Lake Travis Independent School District in Texas, said.
...Pérez said the situation with her book is part of a “perennial strategy for right wing groups to terrorize educators and librarians and students alike.” ...