It is both an educational and electrifying peek into a family's life as they fight to forge connections even as the outside world threatens to close the door on them. An eye-opening and heartfelt story about human connection and the beauty and adversity woven into the deaf community and culture. Goodness, I can't even begin to put into words all the feelings this book provoked!. Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9781408714904 Number of pages: 400 Weight: 640 g Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 40 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection. 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. 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 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.
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. True biz (adj./exclamation American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 - Oprah Daily, The Millions, Lit Hub, BookPage 'Part tender coming of age story, part electrifying tale of political awakening, part heartfelt love letter to Deaf culture, True Biz is a wholly a wonder' Celeste NgĪ 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.
Can't wait for people to read!' Reese Witherspoon
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