Large Print Book
True biz : a novel
Published 2022 by Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Waterville, Maine
ISBN 9798885782616
Bib Id 2558733
Copyright 2022
Edition Large print edition.
Description 599 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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LCCN
2022-024306
ISBN
9798885782616 large print) $32.00
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LG-PRINT Novic
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Title
True biz : a novel
Edition
Large print edition.
Publication Information
2022 by Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Waterville, Maine :
Copyright Date
©2022
Description
599 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Note
"An earlier version of Eliot's story was published as "Conversion" in Guernica, February 17, 2014" -- Title page verso.
Summary
"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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Domestic fiction.
School fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
School fiction.
Large type books
School fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
School fiction.
Large type books
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