{"product_id":"truth-is-a-novel-in-verse","title":"Truth Is: A Novel in Verse","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Fighting Parts\u003c\/i\u003e comes an empowering and defiant novel in verse in which a teen poet grapples with an unplanned pregnancy and determines what happens to her body in a world that wants to take the choice away from her. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Truth learns she's pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, she makes one decision she's finally sure about: an abortion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Told through searing free-verse, journal entries, and interspersed fill-in-the-blank poetry prompts, Hannah V. Sawyerr's \u003ci\u003eTruth Is\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us there is always a choice. There is always hope. And there is always a way forward.","brand":"Hannah V Sawyerr","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46724849074412,"sku":"9781419776830","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781419776830.jpg?v=1754768308","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/truth-is-a-novel-in-verse","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}