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Monday Night Book Discussion

True Biz by Sara Novic
2023-04-17 19:00:00 2023-04-17 20:00:00 America/New_York Monday Night Book Discussion Books will be available at the circulation desk one month before the discussion. Parma-Snow Branch - Story/Craft/Resource Room (80)

Monday, April 17
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-04-17 19:00:00 2023-04-17 20:00:00 America/New_York Monday Night Book Discussion Books will be available at the circulation desk one month before the discussion. Parma-Snow Branch - Story/Craft/Resource Room (80)

Parma-Snow Branch

Story/Craft/Resource Room (80)

Books will be available at the circulation desk one month before the discussion.

We will be discussing True Biz by Sara Novic. 

"Taking readers into a residential school for the deaf, this coming-of-age novel follows three people—a rebellious transfer student, the school’s golden boy and the headmistress—as they each deal with personal and political crises and find their lives inextricable from one another—and changed forever." (Publisher's Summary). 

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