True Biz - Sara Novic

Sara Novic

Category: General Fiction

Narrator: Kaleo Griffith

Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Teen & Young Adult, LGBT

A 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., 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 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 theyll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student whos never met another deaf person before; Austin, the schools 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. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them