{"product_id":"truth-is-a-novel-in-verse","title":"Truth Is: A Novel in Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAll the Fighting Parts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomes 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeventeen-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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Truth learns she’s pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, she makes one decision she’s finally sure about: an abortion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDetermined 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTold through searing free-verse, journal entries, and interspersed fill-in-the-blank poetry prompts, Hannah V. Sawyerr’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTruth Is\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reminds us there is always a choice. There is always hope. And there is always a way forward.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hannah V. Sawyerr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45498636697776,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/91SVrY2USjL._SL1500.jpg?v=1785744882","url":"https:\/\/www.umojabooks.com\/products\/truth-is-a-novel-in-verse","provider":"Umoja House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}