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Removal from libraries
In 2023, the novel was removed from school library shelves in the Martin County School District in Florida, along with 91 other books. Moms for Liberty demanded the removal following the 2022 passage of the Stop WOKE Act, supported and signed into law by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The book describes sexual assaults by Nazi concentration camp guards. Twenty of Picoult's books were removed in all, leading her to protest against what she called a "shocking breach of freedom of speech and freedom of information". Referencing Nazi book burnings, she said that there was "a strange irony that a parent wanted this particular book removed, because it felt a bit like history repeating itself".