Sara Nović

Biography

Sara Nović is the author of the novels True Biz (Random House, 2022), America is Immigrants (Random House, 2019), and Girl at War (Random House, 2015). Her short fiction and critical essays have also appeared in the New York Times, Guernica magazine, Slate, the Washington Post, and more.

Sara Nović

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POETRY / Winter 2024

Lockdown at the School for the Deaf

By Sara Nović

Yesterday, my son taught me the sign for lockdown—
different than locking a door,
or the shutdown we invented at the start
of the pandemic. Little fistfuls of locks
swept quickly between us, a sign
designed especially for school.