Something will change now,” 12 year old Anna’s grandmother Matrona tells her in the opening pages of Naomi Klouda’s debut novel “Anna’s Whale.” A North Pacific right whale has washed ...

Reunions and understandings across divides are the underlying themes of the book, and Klouda, who has reported extensively on ...

Their proposals mean schools could not consider whether books had “serious” artistic, literary, political or scientific value ...