A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 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.
