Girls Like Lisa

She went into labour surrounded by family.She took her last breath in silence.No one called for help.Thirteen-year-old Lisa should have been in school. Instead, she was in the backroom of her family s house, giving birth on an old mattress with no doctor, no ambulance, and no justice.Her pregnancy was a secret. So was the truth about how it happened.And when she died, her family buried both quickly, and without questions.But secrets don t stay buried forever.In this gripping narrative nonfiction account, Girls Like Lisa follows the aftermath of Lisa s death: a grieving cousin who begins to speak out, a midwife caught between silence and duty, and a community forced to confront the truth they tried to hide.