Birth Pangs: A Novel of Home, Family, and Abandonment

By Randolph Splitter

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. Birth Pangs is a literary mystery about abandonment, home, and family triggered by the discovery of a baby in an alley.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5987ZQT
• ISBN13: 9798227607140
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Wordwooze Publishing
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"