Tessa Eyes On The World

<p><em>Tessa</em> K. Prater and Salodius Byrd's debut novel was inspired by an actual person Tessa Marie Horan. Tessa raised in an unconventional family from the western United States plans a journey to India and Nepal in search of spiritual and moral discipline after she completes her high school education. A few months before she departs her brother experiences a life-changing injury that leaves him a paraplegic.</p><p>The tone is set to weigh all the parts of her life as she is torn between Buddhist and familial obligation and devotion.</p><p>On her journeys Tessa bears witness to the disparity of cultures human trafficking marginalization and the destruction of our planet. While Tessa is in a remote village of the Himalayas a young girl is sold by her family into servitude and the pivotal point of Tessa's commitment and passion jettisons into deliberate motion. She begins a courageous journey to promote change in the world and enlists in the Peace</p><p>Corps after her college education. Tessa is assigned to a far-flung village in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga where she becomes intimate with the science of people while integrating with the villagers. She contemplates the reasons she made a rebellious decision to leave her family of origin as her personal heritage surfaces.</p><p>Tessa is in search of answers clarity and inextinguishable hope about the polarity of the world. She must face unintended consequences because of her choices.</p>