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True biz : a novel / Sara Nović.
Van Pelt Library PS3614.O929 T78 2022
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Novic True
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nović, Sara, 1987- author.
- Series:
- Reese's book club
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deaf children--Fiction.
- Deaf children.
- Deaf people--Education--Fiction.
- Deaf people.
- Deaf people--Fiction.
- American Sign Language.
- Deaf people--Means of communication.
- Deaf people--Education.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Deaf people--Means of communication--Fiction.
- American Sign Language--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Boarding schools--Fiction.
- Boarding schools.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- School fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 386 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2022]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "Reese's Book Club"--Dust jacket.
- "An earlier version of Eliot's story was published as "Conversion" in Guernica, February 17, 2014" -- Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nović, Sara. True business
- ISBN:
- 9780593241509
- 0593241509
- OCLC:
- 1253441759
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