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Sara Nović is author of the NYT best-seller TRUE BIZ, as well as the novel GIRL AT WAR, (2015, winner American Library Association Alex Award, longlist Women's Prize, finalist for the LA Times Fiction prize) and the illustrated nonfiction collection AMERICA IS IMMIGRANTS (2019). She's an instructor of creative writing and Deaf studies, and lives in Philly with her family.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 113,128 ratings · 14,216 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	True Biz 4.06 avg rating — 79,390 ratings — published 2022 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girl at War 4.02 avg rating — 33,487 ratings — published 2015 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In This Sign by Joanne Greenberg (Goodreads Author), Sara Nović (Goodreads Author) (introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 447 ratings — published 1970 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	America Is Immigrants by Sara Nović (Goodreads Author), Alison Kolesar (Illustrator) 3.99 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Others: Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves by Charles Fernyhough (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Leila Aboulela (Goodreads Author), Gillian Allnutt 4.19 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notes on a War-Torn Childhood (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 79) by Sara Nović (Goodreads Author), Justin Taylor (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spring 2015 Debut Fiction Sampler by Elena Delbanco, Catie Disabato (Goodreads Author), Brendan Duffy 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plough Quarterly No. 40 – The Good of Tech (Plough Quarterly, 40) by Simon Oliver, Peter Mommsen (editor), Sara Nović (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother Tongue: A Memoir it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

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“...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.”
― Sara Nović, Girl at War

tags: conflict, hate, war

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“Their musings about how and why people stayed in a country under such terrible conditions were what I hated most. I knew it was ignorance, not insight that prompted these questions. they asked because they hadn't smelled the air raid smoke or the scent of singed flesh on their own balconies; they couldn't fathom that such a dangerous place could still harbor all the feelings of home.”
― Sara Nović, Girl at War

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“Music, I'd heard him say, was like dessert. He could live without it, but life just wasn't as good.”
― Sara Nović, Girl at War

tags: music

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January Side Reads Nominations

Top 5 books move onto the second round!

At the Water's Edge

by Sara Gruen

12 votes, 19.0%

Yes Please

by Amy Poehler

12 votes, 19.0%

All the Bright Places

by Jennifer Niven

11 votes, 17.5%

Girl at War

by Sara Nović

9 votes, 14.3%

Raven Black

by Ann Cleeves

5 votes, 7.9%

Secrets of a Charmed Life

by Susan Meissner

5 votes, 7.9%

Like Water for Chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

4 votes, 6.3%

A Town Like Alice

by Nevil Shute

2 votes, 3.2%

A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway

2 votes, 3.2%

Thunderstruck

by Erik Larson

1 vote, 1.6%

63 total votes

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Sara’s Quotes

“Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.”
― Salman Rushdie

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