The Poet X Sourcebooks Landmark In The Ugly Truth

In The Ugly Truth

and living under the same roof again

she resorts to self-harm to deflect the pain inside

Belly finds out what comes after falling in love in this follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons

The Poet X Sourcebooks Landmark In The Ugly TruthWinner of the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpr Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times bestselling novel in verse by an award winning slam poet, about an Afro Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood.