Sara Novic on TRUE BIZ
\u201cTrue Biz is an ASL idiom. It doesn't have one direct translation into English, but a few of the things that it could mean:\xa0seriously, literally. Real talk\xa0is one that I think gets used a lot.\xa0No kidding. Like, if someone says like,\xa0No, you made that up,\xa0no true biz, you know, and I thought that it was a good title for the book, because it doesn't quite translate directly into English.\u201d We\u2019ve been fans of\xa0Sara Novi\u0107 since her page-turning, coming-of-age debut,\xa0Girl at War. Sara\u2019s back with a new novel,\xa0True Biz, which she calls both a \u201ccoming-of-age and a coming-of-middle-age\u201d story set at a school for the Deaf. She joins us on the show to talk about CODA\u2019s Oscars, Deaf culture and degrees of Deaf experience, punk rock, the fluidity of ASL and how best to represent it on the printed page, giving her Deaf characters agency and the space to be real teenagers, writing joy into her story and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer. And we end the episode with a TBR Topoff segment featuring Margie and Marc.
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Featured Books:
True Biz by\xa0Sara Novi\u0107
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
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Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer. This episode was mixed by Chris Gillespie. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional bonus episodes on Saturdays).
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