The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

We follow the ups and downs and rapes of a Chilean family for several mystical generations.

Banned

#97 Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009

1994 - California - Challenged due to accounts of sexual encounters and violence but retained at Paso Robles High School 

1997 - Virginia - Challenged but retained at Brentsville's Stonewall Jackson High School for sexual explicitness

1998 - Maryland - Challenged at Montgomery County reading lists and school library shelves as obscene

1999 - California - Challenged in Encinitas at La Costa Canyon High School as it "defames" the Catholic faith and contains "pornographic passages"

2000 - California

          Challenged but retained at Fairfield Unified School District as "immoral and sexually depraved"

          Challenged and retained for being "immoral and sexually depraved" at Suisun City Unified School District

2003 - California - Challenged but retained at Modesto, with the Modesto City School Board advising that parents given annotations and information of any text with the option of opting out

2013 - North Carolina - Challenged due to the book's graphic nature at Watauga County High School and retained after three appeals. 

Sources

ALA. "Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009." Retrieved on 17 Aug 01 from http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009 

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

Allende, Isabele. House of the Spirits. Alfred A. Knopf. 1982.

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