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Record W4234735632 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2020.0838

If I Tell You the Truth by Jasmin Kaur

2020· article· en· W4234735632 on OpenAlex
Deborah Stevenson

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Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSouth Asian Studies and Conflicts
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsImmigrationResidenceNarrativeSociologyHistoryLawPolitical scienceLiteratureArtDemography

Abstract

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Reviewed by: If I Tell You the Truth by Jasmin Kaur Deborah Stevenson, Editor Kaur, Jasmin If I Tell You the Truth; written and illus. by Jasmin Kaur. HarperCollins, 2021 [464p] Trade ed. ISBN 9780062912640 $17.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780062912664 $8.99 Reviewed from digital galleys Ad Gr. 9-12 In 2001, eighteen-year-old Kiran Kaur leaves India to study in Canada, knowing she's pregnant by her rapist; her family members in both countries desert her, but she's helped by new Canadian friends who become her found family and help her raise Sahaara. Years go by and then in 2019, Sahaara is an aspiring art student, looking forward to turning eighteen and being able to sponsor her undocumented mother for legal residence in the country. That plan suddenly becomes urgent when Canadian immigration takes Kiran into custody; as she prepares her case for staying, she shares with Sahaara the truth about her conception and the fact that Sahaara's biological father is currently a high-flying political candidate. When Kiran shares her story on television, it goes internationally viral and gets picked up by India's #metoo movement, and Kiran and Sahaara travel to India for Kiran to be honored—if she and Sahaara can avoid their powerful enemy. The narration, a mix of first-person prose and free verse that alternates between Kiran and Sahaara over the years, speaks feelingly of Kiran's desperation and Sahaara's rage and offers a lacerating exploration of the way Kiran's undocumented status limits her recourse on many fronts. The book also addresses the intergenerational effects of trauma and the international interconnectedness of issues of sexual violence. Unfortunately, discourse on those issues sometimes buries the human story; events and dialogue seem contrived for maximum messaging, leaving main characters flat, while secondary characters have little resonance beyond their role in supporting the Kaurs' story. It's still a useful look at undocumented immigration that goes beyond narratives focused on the U.S. southern border, and the global discussion of violence against women may fire up some young activists. An author's note gives a few more details about references in the text. Occasional moody line drawings add a visual dimension. Copyright © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.727
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0050.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it