Chalk this one up to the law of unintended consequences. It seems the McMinn County School board in Tennessee that voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust just had their actions backfire on them.
Sales of Maus spike after Tennessee book banning:
Sales of Art Spiegelman’s Maus—the writer and illustrator’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel account of his father’s experiences as a Holocaust survivor—have reportedly spiked online this week. Said boost might partly be attributed to International Holocaust Remembrance Day having arrived this past Thursday—but probably has a lot more to do with a vote by a recent Tennessee school board, which took the, let’s say, unconventional tack of celebrating the day of remembrance by banning Maus from its schools.
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