White Plains Library: Author Visit: Ryan Estrada, Banned Book Biographer

In Banned Book Club, Estrada and his wife Kim Hyun Sook wrote about how she was hunted down by the police and nearly escaped arrest and torture for reading banned books under a dictator in 1980s Korea and helped turn her country into a democracy.  Read more about the history and writing of Banned Book Club.

Ryan will lead a conversation about how these and other lessons can be applied to readers today who are dealing with a whole new wave of book bans.  The discussion will consider questions such as… What does it mean to ban a book? Why are books banned? Is there any situation where banning a book is a good idea? What can we gain from reading them?

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