Everything I Need to Know About Life I Learned From Reading Banned Books
4 min readSep 26, 2021
By the time I read Roald Dahl’s Mathilda, a lot had happened in two years. My parents had divorced; my mom, older sister, and I moved to Atlanta, GA; mom had a mental breakdown; and my older sister ran away from home. I went from living in a small town with both of my parents, a doting older sister, and loving grandparents to living in a single-parent household with…