Joyce Carol Oates, a New York Times best-selling author, has won a National Book Award and been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In After the Wreck, 15-year-old Jenna is left motherless-and afraid to confront the emotions that threaten to consume her.But then she meets a boy named Crow. She finds herself opening up to him, and perhaps beginning the process of healing. "Oates gets the contemporary teen voice just right, and Jenna's first-person narrative moves at breakneck speed."-Booklist