![]() ![]() He says, “The United States is the exception on how literature is viewed in the whole world simply because we’re the only place with all these creative writing programs. This experience has provided Franklin with some insights into how the United States differs from other countries in their treatment of authors. Franklin has traveled to Germany twice now to give readings and participate in Q&A sessions with students. ![]() My book happened to fit.” The theme of the district’s curriculum that includes Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is “the ambiguity of belonging,” an appropriate theme for the novel, which centers on two childhood friends, one of whom becomes an outcast suspected of committing a decades-old murder and another who is an African American police officer in rural Mississippi. ![]() ![]() Now, every high school student in the third-largest state in Germany is required to read Crooked Letter, a development that Franklin says came out of nowhere. His 2010 novel, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, a New York Times bestseller, was selected as the abitur (or “high school”) book in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The past year has been unusual for author Tom Franklin. ![]()
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