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 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. 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 This important novel should-true biz-change minds and transform the conversation.”-Maile Meloy, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “Tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged. (Apr.An“electrifying” (Celeste Ng)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 With complex characters seething with rage against the injustices they face, and an immersive and novel treatment of Charlie’s experience learning ASL, Nović offers an unforgettable homage to resilience. Circumstances worsen when, one morning, Charlie, Austin, and his roommate go missing from the school. Meanwhile, February has a troubled marriage and must fight against bureaucratic forces that are trying to shut down the school. A romance develops between the two, but Charlie still struggles-her learning is disrupted by her mother’s refusal to sign and the frequent headaches caused by the implant. February, determined to make Charlie’s language immersion easier, assigns Austin to be Charlie’s guide.

Instead, her hearing parents forced her to have a cochlear implant. It’s centered around the River Valley School for the Deaf and follows three protagonists: headmistress February Waters, a hearing ally of the Deaf community Austin, the school’s popular kid who belongs to a generational Deaf family and Charlie, the newly admitted transfer student who struggles to fit in because of her inability to use ASL.

Nović ( Girl at War) returns with an electrifying narrative set at a present-day boarding school for Deaf high school students, where they find love and friendship and battle a series of injustices.

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