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    The Truth Project
    The Truth Project
    The Truth Project
    Audiobook4 hours

    The Truth Project

    Written by Dante Medema

    Narrated by Jesse Vilinsky

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    About this audiobook

    “A heart-wrenching quest for identity every YA reader will relate to, and a deep dive into the meaning of family."" —Ellen Hopkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author

    Debut author Dante Medema explores the emotional fallout after a teenage girl discovers she is the product of an affair. Told through a series of poems, text messages, and emails, this contemporary YA is perfect for fans of Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin.

    Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig intended to breeze through her senior project. While her peers stressed, Cordelia planned to use the same trace-your-roots genealogy idea her older sister used years prior. And getting partnered with her longtime crush, Kodiak Jones, is icing on the cake. All she needs to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results, and get that easy A.

    But when Cordelia’s GeneQuest results reveal that her father is not the person she thought he was, but a stranger who lives thousands of miles away, her entire world shatters. Now she isn’t sure of anything—not the mother who lied, the man she calls Dad, or the girl staring back at her in the mirror.

    If your life began with a lie, how can you ever be sure of what's true?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2020
    ISBN9780063033528
    The Truth Project
    Author

    Dante Medema

    Dante Medema is an author of books for young readers. Her debut novel, The Truth Project, was an Indies Introduce title and an Indies Next List Pick. She lives in Anchorage, Alaska, with her husband, four daughters, and a room full of alien memorabilia—and books, of course. When she’s not writing, she dabbles in baking, decorating, painting, sewing, and reading up on Enneagram personality types. To learn more about Dante, visit her online at dantemedema.com.

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      I had a brief moment to rest on my couch so I picked up The Truth Project sitting on my coffee table, and before I knew it, I was sucked into the story and didn't stop until I finished it. An achingly beautiful and heartfelt story about a young woman searching for herself after finding out through a DNA test that the father she thought was her father had not sired her.