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Laddar... True Biz (urspr publ 2022; utgåvan 2022)av Sara Novic (Författare)
VerksinformationTrue Biz av Sara Nović (2022)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Charley has been battling her hearing parents over her cochlear implant for as long as she can remember, and finally she’s won the right to go to an actual school for the deaf. But she quickly discovers that she’s far behind her peers because her parents didn’t let her learn ASL. Once she begins to learn, so much more of the world opens up to her and she realizes the extent of what of life her mother has denied her in the name of appearances. Parallel to Charley’s story are those of the headmistress of the school, which is dealing with caring for an elderly deaf mother and a jealous wife, and of a fellow deaf student, whose family legacy – everyone is born into the family deaf – and his relationship with his parents is shattered when his baby sister is born hearing. The more I learn about the deaf community the more I realize I don’t know and want to. There are chapters scattered throughout this novel that detail some of the history behind ASL and the deaf community in the US, and I appreciated those while also really enjoying the story and the characters. My only quibble is that the ending seemed a bit abrupt and a little pat, but otherwise this was a great read. Een intensief boek over Charlie, doof geboren en op haar tweede een implantaat gekregen. Ze is taalgedepriveerd, totdat ze naar een dovenschool gaat. Daar leert ze, samen met haar vader, gebarentaal. Ze krijgt last van haar implantaat en daar blijkt iets niet goed mee te zijn. Haar moeder opteert voor een nieuw implantaat. Daartegen verzet Charlie zich, samen met twee vrienden van school. Incredible characters. The author balances them well while weaving the story together with truly informative commentary on the American deaf community. The books is personal and all-encompassing at the same time. I wish the age gap romance was handled differently. For as crystal clear as so much of the trauma the characters face comes across, Charlie’s relationship with “Slash” is ultimately a positive thing in her life. It feels like it goes unpunished in a way?
At the River Valley School for the Deaf, new transfer Charlie struggles to adjust, popular Austin faces the birth of a hearing sister, and the students generally just want parents, doctors, and politicians to stop telling them how to live their lives. Then there's headmistress February, who's worried that both the school and her marriage will get closed down. Novic, author of the Alex Award-winning Girl at War, is herself Deaf and writes frequently on the Deaf community. PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, 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 at the same time. 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. This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, cochlear implants and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The story is told from several narrative points of view, including that of February Waters, headteacher of River Valley School for the Deaf, a specialist boarding school which takes students with state funding, new girl Charlie Serrano, her friend Austin and her roommate Kayla.
After years of struggling with mainstream school as her mum wished, Charlie has won a battle to attend River Valley, but she has a lot to learn. Austin has a new baby sister and is worried about her. Then they discover that the school's funding and their future is under threat.
As well as the story, there is a lot on contentious political issues relating to disability, history of deaf education and American Sign Language (ASL) and also a separate history of deaf Black people. Some readers might feel that there's too much of this for a novel but I found it really fascinating.
There are lots of pictures of ASL. I buy/read a lot of books via Kindle and I haven't seen the ebook version of this one - I read a copy borrowed from the library - but the level of illustration and detail, and its importance to reading this book, makes me think that this might be one to buy/read in dead tree format.
This was sometimes very funny but also quite serious and thought provoking. ( )