True Biz: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

True Biz: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick image
ISBN-10:

1408714892

ISBN-13:

9781408714898

Author(s): Nović, Sara
Released: Apr 05, 2022
Publisher: Little,Brown
Format: Paperback, 393 pages
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Description:

'Original, tender, thoughtful and true. Can't wait for people to read!' Reese Witherspoon\nA transporting 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.\n'Part tender coming-of-age story, part electrifying tale of political awakening, part heartfelt love letter to Deaf culture, True Biz is wholly a wonder' Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere\nONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 - Oprah Daily, The Millions, Lit Hub, BookPage\nTrue biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk\nTrue 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 headmistress, 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.\nThis 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.


























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