
Cordelia's heart-wrenching quest will captivate readers." - Kathleen Glasgow "A luminous and lovely novel-in-verse about family, identity, and finding your truth. Wholly original and totally incandescent." - Laurie Elizabeth Flynn A lyrical, evocative exploration of family, identity, and seeking your truth. "With luminous writing and characters who feel like friends, The Truth Project is a book with its own gravitational pull.


"Dante Medema beautifully weaves together an emotional and riveting story of self-discovery, family, and finding out the truth that's inside us all. If your life began with a lie, how can you ever be sure of what's true? 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. 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. All she needs to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results, and get that easy A. And getting partnered with her longtime crush, Kodiak Jones, is icing on the cake. While her peers stressed, Cordelia planned to use the same trace-your-roots genealogy idea her older sister used years prior.

Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig intended to breeze through her senior project. Told through a series of poems, text messages, and emails, this contemporary YA is perfect for fans of Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin. “ 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.
