{"id":102219,"date":"2025-07-23T08:58:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=102219"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:58:41","slug":"st-olaf-virtual-book-club","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/calendar\/event\/st-olaf-virtual-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Olaf Virtual Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You’re invited to the next meeting of the St. Olaf Virtual Book Club! Join fellow Oles for a thoughtful discussion of\u00a0“True Biz” by Sara Novic.<\/p>\n

The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, 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\u2019ll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who\u2019s never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school\u2019s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress, a CODA (child of deaf adult(s)) who is fighting 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 inextricable from one another\u2014and changed forever.<\/p>\n

This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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