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True Biz (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780593241509)
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xNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - A "tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged" (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War "For those who loved the Oscar-winning film CODA, a boarding school for deaf students is the setting for a kaleidoscope of experiences."--The Washington Post ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Booklist True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk
True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress, a CODA (child of deaf adult(s)) who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another--and changed forever. This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.
Author: Sara Novic
ISBN-10: 0593241509
ISBN-13: 9780593241509
Publisher: Random House
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2022
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.60d
Award: Alex Awards - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2021 pg. 15
Booklist 02/01/2022 pg. 20
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 02/28/2022
BookPage 04/01/2022
True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress, a CODA (child of deaf adult(s)) who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another--and changed forever. This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.
Author: Sara Novic
ISBN-10: 0593241509
ISBN-13: 9780593241509
Publisher: Random House
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2022
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.60d
Award: Alex Awards - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2021 pg. 15
Booklist 02/01/2022 pg. 20
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 02/28/2022
BookPage 04/01/2022
By Sara Novic
xSara Novic holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she studied fiction and literary translation. Her first novel, Girl at War, won the American Library Association's Alex Award, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is an instructor of Deaf studies and creative writing, and lives in Philadelphia with her family.
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