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“She looked down at her palms and understood – her being was implied, her potential thoughts and feelings coursing through her body, the names of everything she knew and those she didn’t yet, all in the perpetual existence in her fingertips.”

True Biz by Sara Nović

November 3, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was a really interesting read, but the ending left me unsatisfied. This is probably a book that a majority of the US population could stand to read for the topic alone, but for me, the story arc left just a little to be desired. I don’t necessarily need a happy ending, but I do need that feeling of completion you get with a well-told story, and I was missing that here, even if the book leading up to the ending was very well done […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ASL, BASL, cochlear implants, Deaf culture, lit-fic, literary, narfna, Sara Nović, sign language, True Biz

narfna's CBR14 Review No:178 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ASL, BASL, cochlear implants, Deaf culture, lit-fic, literary, narfna, Sara Nović, sign language, True Biz ·
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