Authentic dialogue and pithy writing allow teens to feel every prick of panic, embarrassment and fear. The author constructs powerful, pressurized scenes inside the girls’ detention center as well, filling it with believable, disturbing characters, rigid rules and the metallic echoes of lock-downs. Mounting tension culminates only when Devon finally faces her entire, horrific act. As her no-nonsense lawyer pushes for answers, readers experience gripping flashbacks alongside Devon. Efaw captures Devon’s mortification, denial and despair, shifting fluidly between her present experiences in a juvenile jail and the terrifying night a baby inexplicably arrived.
Devon, a perfect student and soccer star, can’t explain how she didn’t know about her pregnancy or how she could put IT, bloody and wailing, in a trash bag and carry IT out to a dumpster.
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