Somehow, pulling a book from a required reading list for children in public schools means it is banned. Such is the case with Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. Child education advocate Lisa Baldwin said the book is filthy, and I don’t have to risk polluting my few remaining brain cells to see if she was correct.
However, the book’s publisher, Random House Publishing, has partnered with Vortex Doughnuts to raise awareness about the “banned” book. The publisher contacted the doughnutery to see what they could do to help unload inventory. It seems strange until one learns Benjamin Myers, co-owner and GM of Vortex, “had a previous relationship with Random House.” Anyhoo, the doughnutery will be giving away free copies of the book on a date you can research yourself if you want one. Leadership at Vortex hopes this will be a first in helping Random House unload inventory from canceled orders – er, banned books.
