When We Almost Came Undone - by Erika Turner (Hardcover)

About the Book

This voice-y YA novel follows a girl who struggles to find hope with her sisters, her best friend, and a new crush, as the country navigates a pandemic & protests--perfect for fans of Darius the Great is Not Okay.

Book Synopsis

A girl struggles to find hope with her sisters, her best friend, and a new crush, as the country navigates a pandemic & protests against police brutality, in this timely coming-of-age perfect for fans of Darius the Great is Not Okay.

"I just want to enjoy being alive. Can't that be enough?"

Tia doesn't know how much more she can take. Things have been weird with her best friend Drew since his activism has kicked into overdrive; her older sister Mel is in a coma after a mental health crisis; a global pandemic has stolen her senior year; and racial tension is high across the country, following the killing of another unarmed Black man by police.

So when Tia's oldest sister Alexis invites her to stay at her place, Tia jumps at the chance to get out of the house and away from her daily life, if only for a little while. But even getting to know the cute girl she meets while walking her sister's new pandemic puppy is not enough to distract her from the weight of her world. Will Mel finally wake up? Is Alexis also on the edge of breaking? Will her friendship with Drew survive the summer? Is protest and quarantine all Tia can look forward to?

With so much unrest in the world and in her life, Tia will have to figure out how to keep from losing hope or losing her mind.

About the Author

Erika Turner is a writer, a poet, and the daughter of storytellers. Sometimes, she writes songs she may one day share. Once, in a Brooklyn community center, she read James Baldwin's quote "You can't tell the children there's no hope," and she carries those words from the city to the desert and beyond. And Other Mistakes was her debut novel. She lives in California with her family and a dog who is suspicious of stationary street objects.