{"id":3053,"date":"2024-11-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2024-10-10T10:53:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T14:53:05","slug":"the-banned-books-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=3053","title":{"rendered":"The Banned Books Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Brenda Novak<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TheBannedBooksClub.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TheBannedBooksClub.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3054\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Year of Publication:\u00a0<\/strong>2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A summary from Goodreads:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>She left her hometown following a scandal\u2014but family loyalty is dragging her back\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite their strained relationship, when Gia Rossi\u2019s sister, Margot, begs her to come home to Wakefield, Iowa, to help with their ailing mother, Gia knows she has no choice. After her rebellious and at-times-tumultuous teen years, Gia left town with little reason to look back. But she knows Margot\u2019s borne the brunt of their mother\u2019s care and now it\u2019s Gia\u2019s turn to help, even if it means opening old wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As expected, Gia\u2019s homecoming is far from welcome. There\u2019s the Banned Books Club she started after the PTA overzealously slashed the high school reading list, which is right where she left it. But there is also Mr. Hart, her former favorite teacher. The one who was fired after Gia publicly and painfully accused him of sexual misconduct. The one who prompted Gia to leave behind a very conflicted town the minute she turned eighteen. The one person she hoped never to see again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Margot leaves town without explanation, Gia sees the cracks in her sister\u2019s \u201cperfect\u201d life for the first time and plans to offer support. But as the town, including members of the book club, takes sides between Gia and Mr. Hart, everything gets harder. Fortunately, she learns that there are people she can depend on. And by standing up for the truth, she finds love and a future in the town she thought had rejected her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goshen Public Library call number:  <\/strong> F NOVAK (BOOK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brenda Novak Year of Publication:\u00a02024 A summary from Goodreads:&nbsp; She left her hometown following a scandal\u2014but family loyalty is dragging her back\u2026 Despite their strained relationship, when Gia Rossi\u2019s sister, Margot, begs her to come home to Wakefield, Iowa, to help with their ailing mother, Gia knows she has no choice. After her rebellious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3055,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}