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미국 남부에서 펼쳐지는 '금서' 운동의 어리석음과 위험을 유머 넘치는 풍자 소설
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
2024-09-05 Leave a Comment on 미국 남부에서 펼쳐지는 '금서' 운동의 어리석음과 위험을 유머 넘치는 풍자 소설 Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books Posted in레벨 7 (7/10) ,
저자:Kirsten Miller ( The Change )
Publisher : William Morrow
출판일 : June 18, 2024
Hardcover : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 0063348691
ISBN-13 978-0063348691
대상연령: 일반(PG15)
가독성 수준: 7
장르: 현대소설, 풍자소설
테마, 키워드: 금서, 미국 금서운동, 미국 남부의 보수적 사상, 도서관의 의의 , 유머
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Beverly와 Lula는 미국 남부 조지아의 시골 마을 Troy에서 태어나 자랐고 같은 고등학교에서 치어 리더를 했고 같은 시기에 현지에서 가정을 가지고 육아를 마쳤다. 하지만 태어난 리더로서 누구로부터도 사랑받고, 현재는 공립학교의 교육위원을 맡고 있는 인기자의 Beverly를, Luna는 일방적으로 라이벌시해 왔다. 지금까지 Beverly에게 질투할 뿐이었던 Luna이지만, 드디어 그녀에게도 기회가 돌아왔다.
그것은 어려운 책이나 아이의 심신에 나쁜 영향을 미치는 책을 도서관에서 배제하는 금서운동의 기수가 되는 것이다.
금서운동에 의해 보수로부터 스타 취급되게 된 Lula는, 집 앞에 작은 「도서관」을 설치해, 거기에 주민이 읽어야 할 양서를 넣어 현지에의 공헌만을 어필했다. Lula가 선택한 추천서는 남부 상류계급 여성 에티켓 교본과 남북전쟁에서 남부 영웅들을 기리는 책이다.
미국에서는 이렇게 "자유롭게 가져오세요"라는 사설 "도서관"이 잘 설치되어 있다.
예전부터 루라가 어머니를 대상으로 괴롭히는 것에 굴복했던 비벌리의 딸 린제이는 자정에 몰래 룰라의 도서관에 가서 커버만 남기고 책 내용을 금서로 바꿨다. . 자선조직에서 팔리고 남아 있던 중고책 중에서 타이틀만으로 골라 이중 삼문으로 구입한 룰라는 원래 독서 등을 하지 않는다. 그것을 알고 있는 Lindsay는 Lula가 이 교환을 깨닫지 못할 것으로 예상했다.
이 교환을 모르는 자가 Lula의 도서관에서 빌린 책에서 시점을 바꾸거나, 인생을 바꾸거나, 그들로부터의 입소문에서 Lula의 도서관의 독자는 늘어나갔다.
그와 동시에 Troy의 마을에서는 새로운 촌장을 선택하는 선거 운동이 시작되고 있었다. Beverly는 많은 사람들의 요청으로 촌장선에 출마했지만, 남부의 과거를 긍정해 과거의 가치관으로 돌아가고 싶은 보수층의 인기자가 된 Lula는 Beverly를 타도해 촌장이 되려고 한다… .
저자 Kirsten Miller는 남부 노스캐롤라이나의 출신으로 항상 남부가 유지 보수로 그려지는 것을 유감스럽게 생각했다. 그렇다고 하는 것도, 그녀의 부모처럼 모든 사람에게 평등하다는 것을 유의하고 있던 리버럴도 제대로 남부에 존재하기 때문이다. Miller가 최근 방안하게 되어 있던 것이 남부 주에서의 금서 운동이다. 많은 불만이 쇄도하고, 반대 운동도 일어나 공립 도서관이나 공립학교에서 유명한 책이 금서가 되었다. 노벨상 수상작가 토니 모리슨의 책 등도 포함돼 있다.
금서 목록을 보면 인종차별을 테마로 한 책, LGBTQ 관련 책, 성적인 요소가 있는 책이 주요 타겟이 되어 있는 것을 알 수 있다. 플로리다주의 학교 도서관에서 스티븐 킹의 작품이 50작 이상 금서 가 되어 있다는 것을 알면 일본에 사는 사람에게 얼마나 바보같은 상황인지 상상할 수 있을까 생각한다.
게다가, Miller가 나중에 쓴 것처럼, 플로리다 주 신문이 조사한 결과, 플로리다에서의 금서에 관한 수백 개의 불만은 단 2명에서 나온 것이었다. 그 어리석음과 금서에 의해 독자가 양서와의 만남을 잃는 위험을 Miller는 이 풍자 소설로 그렸다.
가벼운 터치 소설로 웃을 수 있는 곳이 가득 있지만, 실제로는 웃을 수 없는 미국의 금서운동과 그 배경을 그린 올해의 추천책이다.
이해하기 어려운 부분도 있을지도 모르기 때문에 「읽기 쉬움 레벨」을 7로 했지만, 일단 들어가면 레벨 6의 감각으로 읽을 수 있는 읽기 쉬움이므로 시험해라.
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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books Hardcover – 18 June 2024
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"Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too."--James Patterson
The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.
Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia, where they were born and raised. Now Beverly is on the school board, and Lula has become a local celebrity by embarking on mission to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books--none of which she's actually read. To replace the "pornographic" books she's challenged at the local public library, Lula starts her own lending library in front of her home: a cute wooden hutch with glass doors and neat rows of the worthy literature that she's sure the town's readers need.
What Lula doesn't know is that a local troublemaker has stolen her wholesome books, removed their dust jackets, and restocked Lula's library with banned books: literary classics, gay romances, Black history, witchy spell books, Judy Blume novels, and more. One by one, neighbors who borrow books from Lula Dean's library find their lives changed in unexpected ways. Finally, one of Lula Dean's enemies discovers the library and decides to turn the tables on her, just as Lula and Beverly are running against each other to replace the town's disgraced mayor.
That's when all the townspeople who've been borrowing from Lula's library begin to reveal themselves. That's when the showdown that's been brewing between Beverly and Lula will roil the whole town...and change it forever.
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"Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books is shaping up to be this summer's Big Read. Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too." -- James Patterson
"Is it possible for a book to be important, funny, relevant, and wildly entertaining all at once? Kirsten Miller proves the answer is a resounding YES. Please read this one and pass it along!" -- Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost and Found Bookshop
"The Change is like a guttural rage scream (and somehow a soft, tearful hug) of a book, and I couldn't have loved it any more." -- Emily Henry
"There is a specter haunting women--the specter of rage. Kirsten Miller has woven a fun, gripping, lush, real fable, a Stepford Wives for the twenty-first century, a Witches of Eastwick if it had actually been written by a woman. The Change is poisonous as henbane, and twice as delicious." -- New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe
"Searing and witty and full of so much warranted rage. This was a book I didn't know I was aching for. I cheered on every page." -- New York Times bestselling author Erin A. Craig
"Miller triumphs...The Change is that rare treat: a suspenseful story with great pacing, memorable characters, and an engaging voice. Fantastic in every way, this fierce anthem against misogyny is a smash." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A pointed, punchy, and potent thriller...wry and clever, serious and exacting, and masterfully suspenseful." -- Booklist (starred review)
About the Author
Kirsten Miller is the author of The Change, a GMA Book Club pick, as well as the groundbreaking YA series starring Kiki Strike. Born and raised in a small town in North Carolina, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Publisher : William Morrow & Company (18 June 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 0063348691
ISBN-13 : 978-0063348691
Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.36 x 22.86 cmCustomer Reviews:
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Kirsten Miller grew up in a small town in the mountains of North Carolina. At seventeen, she left for college in New York City, where she lives to this day. Kirsten's latest novel, Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books, is a side-splitting satire that takes on some of the most controversial issues of our day. Her first adult novel, The Change, was a Good Morning America Book Club pick for May 2022. Kirsten is also the author of over a dozen middle grade and YA novels, including the acclaimed Kiki Strike books, (which tell the tale of the delinquent girl geniuses who keep Manhattan safe), and How to Lead a Life of Crime. She is not the Kirsten Miller who wrote All That Is Left (which sometimes appears on the list of the books she's written), but she assumes that Kirsten is lovely and talented.
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BarbarinaS
5.0 out of 5 stars A very difficult one to review but a 5 star.Reviewed in Australia on 15 July 2024
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This was so clever and made a statement - it is so easy to get caught up in things even when our logic tells us different. As a means of demonstrating how easy people are led and turned against anything different this was very well done. It demonstrated how even good people can do the wrong thing and forget they have choices, that decisions must be based on knowledge.
However, none of the characters were likeable and connecting to the story was driven only by plot and occasionally it was difficult to remember who was who. At times, they seemed so remote and colourless despite the actions. But, in saying this I must repeat that this was a very clever use by the author to remind us of the strength of books and more, it was also a reminder of how important the past is and how much we can learn from it if we are open to it.
Difficult to review but all the same this was excellent reading for the content alone.
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lindalovesbooks
4.0 out of 5 stars Put This on your Must-read list.Reviewed in Australia on 3 August 2024
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I loved this book! A stupid woman with a grudge starts a campaign to ban books she thinks are unsuitable. One young woman is going to turn the tables in the most perfect way. I laughed out loud. (Don't read this in a public place...) The first chapter almost put me off because I don't like bad language but I'm so glad I kept going. This was the best book I've read in ages.
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Kathryn
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read !Reviewed in Australia on 23 August 2024
Lula Dean has decided to cleanse her town’s reading habits. All banned books have been removed from libraries and public spaces, and only books that have been deemed appropriate by Lula are to be read. The townspeople stand up and cause a revolution!
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This was a really enjoyable audiobook listen - so much so, I now need to get the paperback copy for my shelf! The characters came alive, I laughed, and I found the storyline enjoyable and relatable. Definitely recommend this one!
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Rina P
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful and heartwarming book about books!Reviewed in Australia on 20 July 2024
4.5 stars.
In Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean has decided to cleanse the town’s reading habits. All banned books have been removed from public spaces, and the townspeople are only allowed to read books Lula has deemed ‘appropriate’. But a small group refuse to be told what they can and can’t read. The revolution is coming …
I’ve always been attracted to books about books, and this was why I picked up this book. I didn’t expect the story to be as prominent as it was, so I’m glad to have found this book and I’d recommend this to everyone!
It was interesting to see that Lula Dean didn’t actually get much air time in the book even though the title was based on her. I’m glad she didn’t though, because she wasn’t a nice person. Beverly Underwood was the super mum and unsung hero in the story, and Lindsay was pretty much the revolution kickstarter!
I loved seeing how each person interacted with the books they ‘chose’ (or stumble into) in the story. In general, I love the idea that there’s a perfect book for everyone, if they just know to stop and look.
This was such a heartwarming story, full of social commentaries about book banning, restrictions and inclusions. I think everyone should read this book!
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Anne
5.0 out of 5 stars A fabulous satire on the serious issue of book banningReviewed in Canada on 12 July 2024
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The very serious subject of book banning is handled in this satirical novel that is sometimes downright hilarious but at other times is frightening or sad. Anyone who loves books will appreciate the reverence that the author conveys for all books. I loved both the way the story progressed and the author’s capturing of the characters in a small southern town. This is a thought provoking book that I wish more people would read and be open to its message.
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readerwriter
5.0 out of 5 stars So entertaining. A must read!Reviewed in the United States on 26 August 2024
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Laugh out loud funny! Sweet! Nasty! Relevant! Important! Controversial! Truly entertaining! A must-read!
I loved everything about this one. From the small-town gossipy vibe to the small-town heroes trying to change their world through books!!!!!
Lula Dean does not want her town infected by bad books. She’s on a one-woman mission to rid the town of all the books that don’t hold up to her wholesome mindset. She and her mindless cronies take all controversial books from every library in town. She puts only Lula-approved ones in her little library for the people to read and learn from. The town will thank her she’s sure.
Unbeknownst to her, the books are replaced by the very books that were banned with her book covers covering up the crime. Each person who reads one of these banned books has an awakening of sorts and learns what it means to walk in someone else’s shoes.
This book is full of outrageous characters that I loved. So relevant to our unfortunate time of “if it’s not right for me it’s not right for you society.” This book will have you cheering and crying.
Books can literally change lives and this book about the power of books proves just that.
Highly recommend!
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KWyly
4.0 out of 5 stars A must read!Reviewed in the United States on 12 July 2024
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I don’t even know how to start this review on Miller’s rocking laugh out loud satire on what used to be considered southern prejudicial fears. The book banning, gay bashing, race battering, redneck, confederate flag flying people of the fictional southern town of Troy, Georgia, are ripe with such bias beliefs. Lula’s Little Library, set right outside her own home, just might convince people what wholesome reading is all about - so Lula Dean believes.
Miller writes a fabulously funny, tongue-in-cheek, satirical story to paint a picture of how ridiculous these areas of worry really are. Her humor is hilariously sharp and to the point as Lula Dean, a widow with twins she hasn’t seen since they graduated from high school, decides not only does she know what is best for the people in her town, but she is going to run for mayor and remove the rubbish and craziness right out of Troy, Georgia. I mean, really, a gay theatre teacher and, well, recruiting in the same high school she graduated from. Seriously, he has got to go. Meanwhile she is determined to get all the books that cause people to turn gay or start drinking or living with value systems she doesn’t even recognize, out of the town’s libraries. So she forms a committee of people who think like she does and she calls them the Concerned Parent’s Committee.
This is a light hearted, dead serious, tale of Lula Dean and of Beverly Underwood as the two rumble in the bid for town mayor. Beverly serves on the school board, bakes casseroles for families in need, and is known as a pillar in the community. While Lula Dean is none of those things. But, she has a plan to fix her town, the people in it, and most importantly their way of thinking.
Fair warning, the shock value of some of the language was almost too much but gut your way through it to read this eye opening, delicious satire on the fears some people have and the control they are determined to use over others. A very timely book to counteract the fear mongering in today’s society. And a very personal book as I have faced book banning in my professional life as a secondary school librarian. Be sure to read the author’s notes. Four stars for this must read book!
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Diane Burroughs
5.0 out of 5 stars First-rate talent for inducing out-loud laughter and being provocative.Reviewed in the United States on 30 July 2024
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In Kirsten Miller’s first adult satire novel, she takes on controversial issues of our day. You go, girl! She’s authored a dozen middle-grade and YA novels and has been a Good Morning America Book Club pick.
Her story takes place in the Southern Baptist, evangelical, tiny town of Troy, Georgia. Twenty-year-old Ronnie Childers works at Piggly Wiggly and enjoys a good trip, trippin’ on shrooms. His philosophy is “The world would be a much better place if more folks stepped out of the boxes, they’d come packed in and opened their minds to the mysteries of the universe.”
One day at two AM Ronnie is unexpectedly reunited with a school gal-chum who finds him stoned on a park bench. In his altered state, he believes twenty-one-year-old Lindsay Underwood, is an angel. Lindsay wrangles him to join her to “cause some trouble.” It just so happens Ronnie’s motto is “Never turn your nose up at trouble,” so he tags along with her to Lula’s Little Library, a free book exchange. He follows her orders to replace Lula’s ineffectual books with the banned books in Lindsay’s suitcase. He’s then instructed to put the dust jackets from Lula’s Library on the replaced books. Get it? Switcheroo. New book, using an old dust jacket so people who get a book think it’s the book that matches the dust jacket.
Lindsay Underwood is rich and gay with a devilish social justice streak. Because Lindsay has a great relationship with her parents, she’s decided not to finish her college semester. Instead, she’s helping her mother, Beverly, fight book banning with “a scary as hell,” Lula Dean at the helm.
After high school Lula and Beverly lived half a mile apart for twenty-five years. Beverly was head of the school board and a pillar of the Troy community and Lula was known as the town crank. Folks pitied Lula when she became a widow and her kids moved away. You’d think she would have softened, but Lula was dead set on punishing the world for ignoring her. Most of her efforts never paid off. But then it happened. Lula discovered an inappropriate book in the baking section of the local library. She became famous throughout the state within one month. Lula found her calling and rebranded herself as a righteous crusader. And what’s worse, she recruited a group of like-minded residents.
The theme is about book-banning zealots. The author has a first-rate talent for inducing out-loud laughter and being provocative. Lula Dean’s Little Library Of Banned Books is fictional but book-banning exists right now! While reading this, I was satiated with unadulterated fun, and rooting for the good guys. I love happy endings!...Just what to expect from fiction at its best. But when you’re finished, pass this book on to your friends...before it too is on the banned book list.
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Sarah Price
5.0 out of 5 stars Important book, delightful readReviewed in the United States on 3 August 2024
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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books is a masterpiece. Every word is thoughtfully curated, and every character has had life breathed into them. Many of the characters take their own hero's journey and they experience it like a hero: the hard way; often against their will and at a cost to themselves, their beliefs and their comfort; but to a much better outcome -- for themselves and for the greater good.
The stories are at once hilarious, sad, insightful, and a little scary, knowing the majority voice only needs to come from a few of the wrong mouths, for this situation to go from the bad place it is currently in, to a much worse one, at everyone's expense.
Kirsten Miller has a masterful way of illustrating her point without it ever seeming like a lecture, or a doomsday prophesy. She lets her stories - fictional, but so real - make their own case.
It was a wonderful read, from the first sentence. I had started recommending it even before I finished it. I look forward to reading much more of her work.
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Angela Barker
3.0 out of 5 stars Great book taking a unique look at banning booksReviewed in the United States on 1 July 2024
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Lula Dean’s library of banned books is great story of the effect books can have on a person, a family and even a whole community. It is an easy read with an important message. It can be a little slow at times and the characters could be a little better developed, but everyone should read this book!
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