Secondly, she’d put all that time spent not worrying about the project toward getting reacquainted with former best friend and longtime crush Kodiak Jones who, conveniently, gets assigned as Cordelia’s partner.Īll she has to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results and breeze through the rest of senior year. For one, she wasn’t going to stress over the senior project all her peers were dreading-she’d just use the same find-your-roots genealogy idea that her older sister used for hers. Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig was sure of many things going into her last year of high school. Here’s the book description from the publisher: It’s why I’ve been obsessed with the show Almost Family lately, and Medema’s novel in verse promises that same level of drama. And Dante Medema’s new Young Adult novel, The Truth Project? It’s one I can’t wait to inhale.Īs an adoptee, I’m drawn to stories about found and chosen families that explore what defines those complicated relationships. They’re books that can be both devoured and savored. The wonderful thing about novels in verse is that you can read them in a single sitting-and then slowly read them again, getting lost in their beautiful language.
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