U. Saucon Resident Objects to Book Complaint

Editor's Note: This story has been revised and accompanying graphic changed to clarify that the request made was to remove the book "The Bluest Eye" from the high school's summer reading list, and not to ban the book entirely. We apologize for any confusion the earlier published version may have caused.

In a letter to the editor published by the Morning Call, an Upper Saucon Township resident tells a mother who recently requested that the Toni Morrison book "The Bluest Eye" be removed from Southern Lehigh High School's summer reading list that if she doesn't want her children to read the book, she shouldn't let them.

Letter-writer Karen Filipowicz addressed Karen Markham's recent remarks in her letter, in which Filipowicz says parents shouldn't seek to impose their views on literature on the children of others.

Last month, Markham, of Coopersburg, told the Southern Lehigh School Board that she objected to the inclusion of "The Bluest Eye" on the summer reading list because of "graphic descriptions of incest, rape and pedophilia" in it.