After

A teenage girl gives birth and leaves the newborn in a trash can.  Nobody around her, including her mother, even knew she was pregnant.  Was she hiding the pregnancy from herself as well, wrapped in desperate denial?  Or was her cover-up deliberate and malicious?  And how is justice served?

This is the setup for Amy Efaw's After, a book I've been waiting for ever since I first heard about it.  And if you want to know how to handle a main character who would seem, at first glance, to be insurmount