What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

by Carolyn Forché

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525560378
• ISBN13: 9780525560371
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Beware when ordering - not all editions are published books

Really annoyed that the version of this book I received was an uncorrected proof/advanced reading copy. I don’t mind that but it was NOT clear when I ordered.