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 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, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another—and changed forever.
About the author:
Sara Nović is the author of the New York Times bestseller “True Biz” and “Girl at War,” both of which won the American Library Association’s Alex Award. Her latest book is “Mother Tongue: A Memoir.” She is an activist and an instructor of deaf studies and creative writing, and lives in Pennsylvania with her family.
When: Saturday, September 26
Time: 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Where: SouthEast Seattle Senior Center, 4655 S. Holly St., Seattle, WA
Access Needs: ASL interpretation and CART Live Captioning are provided
Registration is REQUIRED
ID: On left side, a white person with short brown hair, big black framed glasses, wearing blue button up shirt and sleeves are rolled up. The person is sitting front of bookshelves. On the right side, it is a book cover of “True Biz”, each letter of tile is in different color, and with a hand shape in 1, each finger in a different color and pattern.