Ep. 247 True Biz by Sara Nović -- The Stacks Book Club (Greta Johnsen)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
For our final book club pick of 2022, Greta Johnsen is back to discuss True Biz by Sara Nović, a novel about the teachers and students of a boarding school for the Deaf. We ask who the audience is for this book, and whether the Deaf community should have to teach hearing people about themselves. We also get into the topic of consent with children and parents, especially when it comes to medical decisions.
Be sure to listen to the end of today's episode to find out what our book club pick will be in January 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | You guys, the live and the stacks tour is underway. |
| 0:03.8 | We had an incredible night in Oakland filled with bookish conversations, hot takes, games, |
| 0:08.8 | cocktails. If you missed it, I'm sorry, but don't worry, it's not too late to see the stacks live |
| 0:15.3 | in one of our next four stops. Join me in Chicago with Samantha Erby on August 27th |
| 0:21.6 | in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th in New York City with KSA |
| 0:26.9 | Laman on September 25th and in LA on October 18th with some extra special guests that we will be |
| 0:33.6 | announcing real soon. Tickets are selling fast so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour |
| 0:40.4 | and get your tickets before we sell out. |
| 0:52.5 | Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today is the stacks book club day. It's the last one of the year |
| 1:01.8 | and we are joined again by Greta Johnson of WBEZ Chicago and host of the Nerdet podcast. |
| 1:07.3 | We are talking today about TrueBiz by Sarah Novich, which is an engaging novel that follows a |
| 1:12.0 | complicated and intersecting lives of a group of students at a boarding school for the deaf. |
| 1:16.8 | Greta and I dig into who is the audience for this book, representation, and a lot more. |
| 1:22.4 | And there definitely are spoilers on today's episode so please make sure you've read the book |
| 1:26.4 | before you listen or if you don't care about spoilers, feel free to listen on. |
| 1:30.7 | Make sure you listen to the end of today's episode to find out what our January 2023 book club |
| 1:36.0 | pick will be. Quick reminder, everything we talk about on each episode of the stacks can be found |
| 1:40.0 | in the link in the show notes. If you love the stacks and want more of it, head to patreon.com, |
| 1:44.7 | slash the stacks to join the stacks pack. You get perks like our bonus episodes, our discord |
| 1:49.5 | channel, our virtual book club. And right now, if you join the stacks pack between now and January |
| 1:55.2 | 31st 2023, you get access to our book tracker. This thing is completely customizable. I'm obsessed |
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