 Hello, my name is Shauna and I'm from Dallas, Texas. The book that I think shaped America is The Color Purple. It's one of the first books that really centered the experience of a black woman in the South that was low income. And just the idea of seeing like black English vernacular being put into like actual paperback book, I think was instrumental. I'd like to suggest a book that shaped America was Rachel Carsey's Silent Spring. It really brought about