True Biz: Reese's Book Club by Sara Novic

True Biz: Reese's Book Club by Sara Novic

NEW 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

This important novel should--true biz--change minds and transform the conversation.--Maile Meloy, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

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.

Girl at War and America Is Immigrants are both written by Sara Novic. She resides in Philadelphia with her family and studied fiction and literary translation at Columbia University.

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ISBN 13	9780593241509
ISBN 10	0593241509
Title	True Biz: Reese's Book Club
Author	Sara Novic
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2022-04-05
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Winner of Alex Awards 2023
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.