Books available six weeks before book club date.
\nAbout the book:
\n"True biz? The students at the Rive r Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up\, pass their history fin als\, 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 Charli e\, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person befo re\; Austin\, the school's golden boy\, whose world is rocked when his bab y sister is born hearing\; and February\, the headmistress\, who is fighti ng 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 i nextricable from one another's&mdash\;and changed forever.
\nThis is a story of sign language and lip-reading\, disability and civil rights\, isolation and injustice\, first love and loss\, and\, above all\, great pe rsistence\, daring\, and joy. Absorbing and assured\, idiosyncratic and re latable\, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a u niversal celebration of human connection."
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