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. 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
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