Sara Nović
Adult
At a residential school for the deaf, transfer student Charlie has never met another deaf person; Austin is the campus star until his baby sister is born hearing; headmistress February is fighting to keep the school open. Sign, lip-reading, implants, and civil rights share the same hallway.
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Deaf school as a real place with factions, crushes, and a fight over language. Not a metaphor for not listening. Adults run the school. Kids live the politics.
Adult publication, high-school setting. Cochlear-implant and oralism debates are the plot, not background. Not YA packaging.
Who gets to decide how someone hears, speaks, or signs? Who pays for that decision?
If you don’t know ASL, notice how the book makes you feel that lack without turning it into a quiz.
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