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True Biz: Reese's Book Club
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ISBN10: 0593241525
ISBN13: 9780593241523
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: Feb 28 2023
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Awards: Alex Awards
ISBN13: 9780593241523
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: Feb 28 2023
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Awards: Alex Awards
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.
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