Thirteen community members, at least some of whom are associated with Moms for Liberty, read aloud excerpts from some of these challenged books, including “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Residents who have also been members of the Moms for Liberty Bucks County Facebook group have been showing up to school board meetings over the last year. One member of the Central Bucks board Republican majority, Debra Cannon, is currently a member of the Bucks County Moms for Liberty Facebook group, and another, Lisa Sciscio, was previously a member of the Facebook group. A member of Moms for Liberty, a national organization and the most widespread group leading the charge for book bans in the country, created the site and the organization uses it as a resource in its campaigns. Hopkins has said that her “books are not about the things that happen to…characters, but rather about how those characters react to those things.” This is a perfect description of Impulse, a tragic yet hopeful, compulsively readable journey into three bright and damaged kids’ interior lives.WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsorĪll of the 65 challenged books appear on the Book Looks website, a site focused on banning library books with “objectionable” and “sexual” content.
At first, the three seem to have “nothing in common except age, proximity, and a wish to die.” But as they discover each other’s innate decency and share their histories of neglect and physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, they forge bonds that although deep and real may not be enough to save them. Charismatic Tony, the homeless “boy with the hellfire eyes,” intentionally overdosed to end a life of unspeakable abuse. Gorgeous, rich over-achiever Conner, who believes that “trust is just another five letter word, one that comes before not,” shot himself in the heart. Bipolar cutter Vanessa, whose “demons…keep on howling, like Mama, when she was in a bad way,” slit her wrists. The book is set at a psychiatric hospital for teenagers, “a place no reasonable person would ever want to go.” The three main characters each have their own problems and ideas about how they want to die.
Impulse deals with teen suicide-or, more accurately, attempted suicide, since most of its characters end up alive and better off than they were at the book’s beginning.
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