The Reserve Book Club
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The Reserve Book Club
Want to discuss that popular new title you just finished? We're here for you! Every month we'll discuss a recent best-selling book.
In March we will be discussing True Biz by Sara Novic
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 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.
Reserve a copy on the Lakeland Public Library’s Online Catalog.
- Date:
- Thursday, March 2, 2023
- Time:
- 5:30pm - 6:50pm
- Location:
- Branch Library Meeting Room
- Campus:
- Larry R. Jackson Branch Library
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Authors, Books, and Writing Clubs Larry R. Jackson Branch Library