Tho the location is new, her parents are the same. Her parents decide to immigrate to America, but upon arrival, Dani wonders if life is going to improve. Her friends are leaving for 'greener pastures' in America or Israel and Dani thinks she has hit 'rock bottom.'

The peso is worthless, her father has lost his business and with it his self esteem and all desire to get out of bed and leave the apartment. A terrorist attack took her aunt's life in 1994 and her life has never been the same since. I think adults and young adults both will enjoy this novel. She finds the courage to say goodbye and allows herself to love and be loved again. In her new life, the one After, Dani learns how to heal and forgive. And then there’s Brian, the boy who makes Dani’s pulse race. Through him, she becomes friends with Jessica, one of the popular girls, who is harboring a secret of her own. Just when Dani is about to break, she meets a boy named Jon, who isn’t like all the other students. In addition, she must deal with an angry father who seems more like a stranger every day. It's supposed to be a fresh start, but when you're living in a cramped apartment and going to high school where all the classes are in another language - and not everyone is friendly- life in America is not all it's cracked up to be. In order to escape a country that is sinking under their feet, Dani and her family move to the United States. From the author of PURGE and CONFESSIONS OF A CLOSET CATHOLIC, a new book that is searing, gripping, and impossible to put down.ĭani's life will never be the same again.Īfter a terrorist attack kills Dani's aunt and unborn cousin, life in Argentina - private school, a boyfriend, a loving family- crumbles quickly.

Life after sarah darer littman