...After..‪.‬

Carolina Rivera Escamilla's collection of short stories, entitled ...after... chronicles a girl's coming of age in turbulent times. Dalia's life unfolds within the context of her family and community before and during the civil war in El Salvador. Dalia, the primary narrator, is the camera through which the reader relives scene by scene her youthful experience and contemplations on life's often terrifying meaning. How can her relationships live long enough to get past a world that is falling apart? Will there ever be an …after…in which to live?