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Truth Is — Hannah V. Sawyerr
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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 dreamâ�,�•escaping her mother's grasp after graduationâ�,�•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 teamâ�,�•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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