A little over a year ago, Daughter was assigned Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore for her high-school literature class. I love this book.¹Heck, I pretty much dig all of Murukami’s work. So I was excited about reading along with her and hearing about how the book was discussed in class and what she thought about it all. But about halfway through the book, one of the parents discovered that the book “offended” her, so she pressured the school administration to stop teaching the book. And just like that, the kids were told that it was no longer part of the class syllabus and the teacher was admonished to please not discuss it with the students. read more