TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nović,Sara
TI  - True biz: a novel 
T2  - Reese's book club
SN  - 9780593241509
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Deaf children
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Deaf
KW  - Education
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Means of communication
KW  - American Sign Language
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Boarding schools
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - School fiction
N1  - "Reese's Book Club"--Dust jacket
N2  - "True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, 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 at the same time. 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, cochlear implants 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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