True Biz: A Novel

"Charlie is a typical teenager. She snarks at her parents, who’ve long believed that her cochlear implant should have let her assimilate into the mainstream hearing world. But she struggles to follow conversations and is failing at public high school. When she enters River Valley School for the Deaf and begins to learn ASL, language starts to open up to her in a way it never has. Part family drama, part love letter to a community and a cry of rage over its active erasure, True Biz is also compulsively readable."