Iowa City West High School student Alice Gooblar-Perovic credits her early love of reading with how she understands the world.
“People say [books are] like a window or like a mirror, and I see that a lot. They also help you understand yourself better,” she said.
Gooblar-Perovic was a freshman when she learned that thousands of books with sexual content, like The Handmaid’s Tale and Nineteen Minutes, were being pulled from Iowa classrooms to comply with the implementation of Senate File 496, which was scheduled to take effect at the start of 2024…