9780593241523 - True Biz - Sara Novic Kartoniert (TB)

EAN: 9780593241523

Produktdaten aktualisiert am: 23.11.2024
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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 WarFor those who loved the Oscar-winning film CODA a boarding school for deaf students is the setting for a kaleidoscope of experiences.”—The Washington PostONE 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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