DBF 2025: Hannah V. Sawyerr Vintage NAACP Image Award-winning author of

NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand

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and compassion for our shared future

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

finally illuminating a distinctly robust sector of contemporary literature: groundbreaking short stories that explore the thin yet imperative line between Black girlhood and womanhood

DBF 2025: Hannah V. Sawyerr Vintage NAACP Image Award-winning author ofFrom 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 her only solace in a life overwhelmed by a drifting relationship with