She doesn’t yell “Get off my lawn,” thankfully, and she doesn’t take down the library because a white couple stopped and looked at it without even borrowing a book. ![]() ![]() It all converged into a silent scream in my head of, Get off my lawn!” A white couple stops and looks at her library and Aubry Kaplan freaks out: “Instantly, I was flooded with emotions - astonishment, and then resentment, and then astonishment at my resentment. I envisioned it as a place for my neighbors to stay connected during the pandemic.”įine. There are organizations that help people build these little libraries, but I did mine independently. ![]() She builds one because she loves books, but because in our puritanical times nothing can be as simple as that, she writes that she also put one up “to signal to my longtime neighbors that we had our own ideas about improvement, and could carry them out in our own way. This piece in the New York Times is really something, and I mean that in the worst possible sense.Įrin Aubry Kaplan lives in Inglewood, “a mostly Black and Latino city in southwestern Los Angeles County,” and she decides to build a Little Free Library, as they are called, in her front yard so neighbors walking by can borrow a book.
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