Birth Pangs

<p>Peter Kovacs teaches part-time at a community college and tends bar to make ends meet. When a newborn baby is found alive in a trash can in an alley next to the school Peter tries to find out what happened. A parallel narrative-one that eventually intersects the main story-recounts a Japanese high school student's growing alienation from his life of pointless striving. <em><strong>Birth Pangs</strong></em> is<em> </em>a literary mystery about abandonment home and family triggered by the discovery of a baby in an alley.</p>