Book
If I tell you the truth
Call Number
- FICTION KAUR TEEN (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Harper, an imprint of HarpercollinsPublishers, [2021]
Physical Description
442 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary
"In a world that intentionally silences the voices of its most marginalized communities, what does it take to be heard? Kiran leaves her home in Punjab for a new start in Canada after a sexual assault leaves her pregnant. But overstaying her visa and living undocumented brings its own perils for both her and her daughter, Sahaara. Sahaara would do anything to protect her mother. When she learns the truth about Kiran's past, she feels compelled to seek justice--even if it means challenging a powerful and dangerous man"--Jacket
Notes
Trigger warnings: sexual assault, police brutality, immigrant trauma, victim-blaming, domestic violence, alcoholism, depression, anxiety.
Contains notes (page 445) on how the COVID-19 pandemic would have affected the protagonists and key plot points.
Subjects
- Rape victims > Fiction.
- Blaming the victim > Fiction.
- Noncitizens > Canada > Fiction
- Immigrants > Canada > Fiction.
- Young adult fiction.
- Illegal immigration > Canada > Fiction.
- Abused women > Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
- Women noncitizens > Fiction.
- Novels in verse.
- Illegal immigration > Fiction.
- India > Fiction.
- British Columbia > Fiction.