Mother Tongue

Sara Novic teaches in the Popular Fiction MFA program at Emerson College, and is an instructor of Deaf studies at Stockton University. Her first novel, Girl at War, won the American Library Association's Alex Award, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Novic has an MFA in fiction and literary translation from Columbia University, and lives with her family in Philadelphia.

Sara Nović's Mother Tongue is a book I want to press into everyone's hands - disabled or not. This meticulously researched exploration of d/Deaf culture and history dismantles everyday ableism with precision, tracing Nović's journey from isolation to disability activism. It's a book that refuses to let us look away from how we fail disabled people - and shows us how we can do better