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Sara Nović is author of the NYT best-seller TRUE BIZ, as well as the novel GIRL AT WAR, (2015, winner American Library Association Alex Award, longlist Women's Prize, finalist for the LA Times Fiction prize) and the illustrated nonfiction collection AMERICA IS IMMIGRANTS (2019). She's an instructor of creative writing and Deaf studies, and lives in Philly with her family.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 113,912 ratings · 14,326 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	True Biz 4.06 avg rating — 80,065 ratings — published 2022 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girl at War 4.02 avg rating — 33,596 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In This Sign by Joanne Greenberg (Goodreads Author), Sara Nović (Goodreads Author) (introduction) 3.92 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 1970 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	America Is Immigrants by Sara Nović (Goodreads Author), Alison Kolesar (Illustrator) 3.99 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Others: Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves by Charles Fernyhough (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Leila Aboulela (Goodreads Author), Gillian Allnutt 4.19 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notes on a War-Torn Childhood (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 79) by Sara Nović (Goodreads Author), Justin Taylor (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plough Quarterly No. 40 – The Good of Tech by Simon Oliver, Peter Mommsen (editor), Sara Nović (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spring 2015 Debut Fiction Sampler by Elena Delbanco, Catie Disabato (Goodreads Author), Brendan Duffy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother Tongue: A Memoir of Family, Deafness and Identity it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

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“...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.”
― Sara Nović, Girl at War

tags: conflict, hate, war

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“Their musings about how and why people stayed in a country under such terrible conditions were what I hated most. I knew it was ignorance, not insight that prompted these questions. they asked because they hadn't smelled the air raid smoke or the scent of singed flesh on their own balconies; they couldn't fathom that such a dangerous place could still harbor all the feelings of home.”
― Sara Nović, Girl at War

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“Music, I'd heard him say, was like dessert. He could live without it, but life just wasn't as good.”
― Sara Nović, Girl at War

tags: music

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September BoTM Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 nominations move onto final poll

You Are Not Alone

by Greer Hendricks

6 votes, 21.4%

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

by Benjamin Stevenson

4 votes, 14.3%

Twenty Years Later

by Charlie Donlea

4 votes, 14.3%

The Starless Sea

by Erin Morgenstern

3 votes, 10.7%

Trust

by Hernan Diaz

3 votes, 10.7%

Mad Honey

by Jodi Picoult

3 votes, 10.7%

True Biz

by Sara Nović

2 votes, 7.1%

The House Is on Fire

by Rachel Beanland

1 vote, 3.6%

Not a Happy Family

by Shari Lapena

1 vote, 3.6%

The Damage Done

by Michael Landweber

1 vote, 3.6%

Paper Names

by Susie Luo

0 votes, 0.0%

28 total votes

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Sara’s Quotes

“Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.”
― Salman Rushdie

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