Sara Nović
Auteur de Girl at War
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Sara Nović
Notes on a War-Torn Childhood 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Nović, Sara
- Date de naissance
- 1987
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New Jersey, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Queens, New York, USA
Croatia - Études
- Columbia University (MFA)
- Professions
- editor
novelist
teacher - Organisations
- Blunderbuss Magazine
Fashion Institute of Technology
Columbia University - Agent
- Kristina Moore (Wylie)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 1,714
- Popularité
- #14,983
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 93
- ISBN
- 35
- Langues
- 7
The story is told from several narrative points of view, including that of February Waters, headteacher of River Valley School for the Deaf, a specialist boarding school which takes students with state funding, new girl Charlie Serrano, her friend Austin and her roommate Kayla.
After years of struggling with mainstream school as her mum wished, Charlie has won a battle to attend River Valley, but she has a lot to learn. Austin has a new baby sister and is worried about her. Then they discover that the school's funding and their future is under threat.
As well as the story, there is a lot on contentious political issues relating to disability, history of deaf education and American Sign Language (ASL) and also a separate history of deaf Black people. Some readers might feel that there's too much of this for a novel but I found it really fascinating.
There are lots of pictures of ASL. I buy/read a lot of books via Kindle and I haven't seen the ebook version of this one - I read a copy borrowed from the library - but the level of illustration and detail, and its importance to reading this book, makes me think that this might be one to buy/read in dead tree format.
This was sometimes very funny but also quite serious and thought provoking.… (plus d'informations)