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True Biz

Sara Nović

Start date: March 1, 2024

Finish date: May 31, 2024

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May 06, 2024 Kim rated it really liked it

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True Biz takes place at the River Valley School for the Deaf, in Ohio. It examines deaf culture through the eyes of Charlie, whose parents never kept her from her community and forced her to have a cochlear implant at a young age, and who has never learned ASL. Austin is the opposite, his family is 5th generation deaf, and considered a poster child for the community. When his sister is born hearing, it shakes the family bonds, as she loses her hearing and the family must decide which approach to ...more

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Jan 13, 2023 Bucket rated it liked it

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Just okay as a novel, in my opinion. The author tries to do and cover all things through her characters. Medical/social discrimination of and within the deaf community is well covered, but the author also covers racism, sexism, and LGBTQ issues, to greater or lesser extent, and her teen characters deal with bullying, drugs, sex, violence, religious or parental abuse, and more. So much that the book becomes part-treatise, rendering the story and characters flat and unnatural.

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