Truth Is: A Novel in Verse Cover:Hardcover But his story begins with

But his story begins with a tragedy: as a child

What will you find when you venture out in the world on your own

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Truth Is: A Novel in Verse Cover:Hardcover But his story begins withLonglisted for the 2025 National Book Awards in Young Peoples Literature From the critically acclaimed author of All the Fighting Parts 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. Seventeen year old Truth Bangura wants nothing more than to know a life beyond her hometown. Writing and performing is