Author Nora Roberts shared her shock at her books being banned in Florida.
Martin County School district banned eight of Roberts's novels as the result of protest from the activist group Moms for Liberty. The group cited alleged pornography as the reason for banning the books. Among the eight books are Roberts's Bride Quartet installments. Bride Quartet is a series of books following friends who are looking for love while running a wedding business, and most end in each getting married.
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“I’m surprised that they wouldn’t want teenagers to read about healthy relationships that are monogamous, consensual, healthy, and end up in marriage,” Roberts said of Moms for Liberty in a comment to the Washington Post. The author did admit all the books contain sex.
Moms for Liberty did not respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment.
“All of it is shocking,” Roberts said. “If you don’t want your teenager reading this book, that’s your right as a mom — and good luck with that. But you don’t have the right to say nobody’s kid can read this book.”
The district also banned Judy Blume's Forever... in a string of banned books in line with Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R-FL) library guidance for schools. Blume's book, which also recently became a film adaptation, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret has also been banned in some locations across the state. She claimed she wrote it in an effort to help girls understand puberty.
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"We have elected legislators who are trying to put through a law that stops elementary schoolgirls from talking about getting their periods," Blume said on The View on Friday. "Good luck, right? What are you going to do?"
Martin County additionally banned 20 Jodi Picoult novels and the Bernard Malamud Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Fixer.