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After

by Amy Efaw

Denial, responsibility, and the question of what Devon understood

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Denial, responsibility, and the question of what Devon understood

Devon’s life as a student and athlete gives way to juvenile detention after an action she has struggled to acknowledge. As she faces the possibility of a life sentence, the novel places questions of responsibility alongside questions of consciousness: what did Devon know, and could denial have kept her from recognizing the changes around her? Pregnancy is central to the book’s social subject matter, while the legal stakes make punishment part of the story’s examination of conscience and understanding. The premise connects private denial with consequences judged by others, without making those questions easy to separate.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in fiction about pregnancy and its social consequences.
  • Readers interested in stories that examine denial, consciousness, and responsibility.
  • Readers drawn to young adult fiction involving juvenile detention and questions of punishment.

Themes

PregnancyDenial and consciousnessResponsibility and punishmentJuvenile detention

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Book overview

A "good girl" with her life on track suddenly finds everything going off the rails in this gripping page-turner that will challenge your beliefs about conscience and consciousness.

"Skillfully written, emotionally raw."--School Library Journal, starred review

"After is a truly touching novel that everyone should read."--The Book Obsession Blog

Before it all, Devon was a good student, a good athlete, an all-around good girl. But then IT happened--the thing that was so horrible, so shameful, so impossible to imagine that Devon simply chose not to admit it to anyone, even herself. But denial can't make a thing go away, and now Devon's in a juvenile detention center, facing a possible life sentence for her actions.

Does she deserve that punishment? Did she know what she was doing? Or was her denial so deep that she was unable to register the seemingly unavoidable changes happening to her?
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