Today Ended An Hour Ago

Not long after her family moves to San Francisco, a young girl named Teaha finds herself running from the police alongside her mother and sister. What follows is a stark choice: stay, and endure the cruelty of the people around her and the media's glare on her family, or disappear. Teaha makes her decision, and then has to live with it.

Based on true events, Tessia-Yasmine's book follows the gap that opens between who Teaha really is and who she must become to pass for ordinary. It is a story of childhood trauma and the slow work of becoming independent, and it asks hard questions about virtue, loyalty and the roles other people cast us in. It will suit readers drawn to true-life accounts of resilience, told from the inside.