The Truth Project, Dante Medema
The Truth Project, Dante Medema
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The Truth Project

Author: Dante Medema

Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky

Unabridged: 4 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/13/2020


Synopsis

“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?

About 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by daph pink ♡ on September 25, 2021

4 stars! "Because I get lost in metaphors they don’t understand. My stories live in daydreams written in verse I never, ever share." This quote perfectly describes the premises of the story as this book is written in verses and first thing about me , I don’t like poetry or books written in verses , b......more

Goodreads review by Kelsey (munnyreads) on August 01, 2021

The Truth Project is Cordelia's story of how she finds out that she is the product of an affair after deciding to take a genealogy test for school. Turns out Cordelia has felt off and almost alienated from her family, even more so than the average teenager in typical YA. The results of the DNA test......more

Goodreads review by destiny ♡ on February 24, 2022

This was good! A super quick, engaging read that offered a somewhat predictable but still important and enjoyable look at discovering your family heritage isn't what you thought it was — and, more than that, learning that your parents are humans who make terrible mistakes sometimes, and finding how......more

Goodreads review by Claude's on December 17, 2020

CW: (view spoiler)[teen pregnancy, drinking, abortion (hide spoiler)] Well it's hard to swallow when you have a big lump in your throat. That was a moving verse novel about a girl coming to terms with information that has shattered her reality. Feeling hurt and betrayed Cordelia seeks to make sense of who she is and where she belon......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on October 07, 2020

3.5 stars rounded to 4 Every once in awhile I like to dip my toes into a novel channeled through poetry, and this one maintains a nice blend of traditional beauty and modern relevance. While I usually don't embrace stories where a majority of the conflict could have been solved by two characters just......more