DBF 2025: Hannah V. Sawyerr 2024 CHECK and guaranteed to make you

and guaranteed to make you hungry

and painting

But even though she can’t fly—and her childhood attempt left her walking with a crutch—she is far from powerless

Told with Jalen’s signature wisdom and gorgeous art by Nneka Myers

DBF 2025: Hannah V. Sawyerr 2024 CHECK and guaranteed to make youFrom 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