num_pages: 464
description: Told in prose poetry and illustration this heartrending story weaves Kirans and Sahaaras timelines together showing a teenage Kiran and later her high schoolaged daughter Sahaara.Kiran is a young Punjabi Sikh woman who becomes pregnant after being sexually assaulted by her fiancs brother. When her fianc and family dont believe her she flees her home in India to Canada where she plans to raise the child as a single mother. For Kiran living undocumented means constant anxiety over finances work safety and whether shell be deported back to the dangers that await her in Punjab.Eighteen years later Kirans daughter Sahaara is desperate to help her mother who has been arrested and is facing deportation. In the aftermath Kiran reveals the truth about Sahaaras conception. Horrified Sahaara encourages Kiran to speak out against the man who raped herwhos now a popular political figure in Punjab. Sahaara must find the best way to support her mother while also dealing with the revelation about her parents.
language: English
title: If I Tell You the Truth
publisher: HarperCollins