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Truth Is: A Novel in Verse
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
ISBN13: 9781419776847
Publisher: Amulet Books
Published: Mar 30 2027
Pages: 480
Height: 1.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
National Book Award finalist Truth Is is an empowering, searing, and defiant young adult novel in verse Hannah V. Sawyerr about teen pregnancy and the right to decide what happens to your own body
Seventeen-year-old Truth Bangura wants nothing more than to know a life beyond her hometown. Writing and performing is her only solace in a life overwhelmed by a drifting relationship with her best friend, an emotionally turbulent home environment, and the reality that her below average grades make her true dream--escaping her mother's grasp after graduation--uncertain.
When Truth learns she's pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, she makes one decision she's finally sure about: an abortion.
Determined to move forward, Truth turns to the pages in her notebook with the support of her slam poetry team--including the poet with a voice smooth as summer jazz, who's been catching her eye during practice.
At an open mic night, Truth finally gains the courage to perform a piece that dives into her rocky relationship with her mother--and reveals the choice she never told her. But when a video of Truth's performance is posted online and starts going viral, her decision quickly becomes everyone's business--including her mother's.
Told through searing free-verse, journal entries, and interspersed fill-in-the-blank poetry prompts, Hannah V. Sawyerr's Truth Is reminds us there is always a choice. There is always hope. And there is always a way forward.
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