The book was chosen as a pick for Reese Witherspoon's book club and was reviewed as "moving, fast-paced and spirited - we have vivid access to all of the main characters’ points of view - but also skillfully educational" by The New York Times. The book follows Charlie to River Valley School for the Deaf as she deals with a faulty cochlear implant and meets other deaf people for the first time in her life. Nović's second book True Biz was released in 2022. Nović was awarded the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize in 2013 for her translation of Sarajlić's poem "After I Was Wounded." She is also a recipient of the Alex Awards. In addition to publishing her own literary works, Nović has translated poems written by Izet Sarajlić, a renowned Bosnian writer. In 2014, Nović was awarded an ALTA Travel Fellowship by the American Literary Translators Association. The novel was an Alex Awards recipient in 2016. Nović is most notable for her debut novel, Girl at War, which tells the story of Ana Jurić, a ten-year-old girl whose life is upended by the civil war that resulted in the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Nović is also a deaf rights' activist who has written about the challenges she has faced as a deaf novelist. Sara Nović (born 1987) is an American writer, translator, and creative writing professor.
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