{"product_id":"book-vwc5","title":"Truth Is","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Young People's Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll the Fighting Parts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Truth learns she's pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, she makes one decision she's finally sure about: an abortion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sawyerr (\u003ci\u003eAll The Fighting Parts\u003c\/i\u003e) combines fast-paced, unwavering verse poems with text messages, social media transcripts, and more in this stunning portrait of a teen in transition that earns all the snaps.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50569833316656,"sku":"BDvwc5","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/vwc5-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779140179","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-vwc5","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}