2019 National Book Award Finalist "Reading it will change you, perhaps forever." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time." --Margaret Atwood What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary Memoir about a young woman\'s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others.
Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation, this is the story of a woman\'s radical act of empathy, and her fateful. 2019 National Book Award Finalist "Reading it will change you, perhaps forever." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time." --Margaret Atwood What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary Memoir about a young woman\'s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others