{"id":1365,"date":"2022-12-30T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2022-12-30T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:09:00","slug":"book-recommendation-true-biz-by-sara-novic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/book-recommendation-true-biz-by-sara-novic\/","title":{"rendered":"Book recommendation: True Biz by Sara Novi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/captimes.com\/news\/education\/10-uw-madison-profs-share-their-favorite-books-of-2022\/article_20b20f7a-8470-52b9-8e5f-d40c33de5cc9.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter_CapTimes&amp;fbclid=IwAR3ETMkVDIVREoOwU9x589DwcOFIZJRiwUsESvwmtDAfxRxQnPpZ-Y1TU98\">Capital Times<\/a>\u00a0asked UW-Madison professors about their favorite books of the year. I recommended <em>True Biz<\/em> by Sara Novi\u0107. The book is, at its heart, a coming-of-age story of a deaf girl, Charlie, who grew up without access to a signed language so that she would &#8216;blend in&#8217; more easily and who, at the beginning of the book, joins a Deaf community as somewhat of an outsider. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/15\/books\/review\/true-biz-sara-novic.html\">Here&#8217;s a link<\/a> to the NYT review of the book, which concludes<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Great stories create empathy and awareness more effectively than facts do, and this important novel should \u2014 true biz \u2014 change minds and transform the conversation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-30-at-11.57.34-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1366 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-30-at-11.57.34-AM-1024x854.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-30-at-11.57.34-AM-1024x854.png 1024w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-30-at-11.57.34-AM-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-30-at-11.57.34-AM-768x640.png 768w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-30-at-11.57.34-AM-1536x1281.png 1536w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-30-at-11.57.34-AM-1200x1000.png 1200w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-30-at-11.57.34-AM.png 1720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Capital Times\u00a0asked UW-Madison professors about their favorite books of the year. I recommended True Biz by Sara Novi\u0107. The book is, at its heart, a coming-of-age story of a deaf girl, Charlie, who grew &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}