The Aftermath and Chapters 1-2 Summary and Analysis

Deborah Spungen is the mother of Nancy Spungen. Nancy was famous for being the girlfriend of Sex Pistols' bass player, Sid Vicious. The Spungen family was overwhelmed by the negative press surrounded her daughter and her murder. Therefore, Deborah Spungen felt compelled to write this book in order to set the record straight about her daughter and to maybe help another family going through what they have gone through.

In The Aftermath, Deborah Spungen, overwhelmed by the death of her daughter and the press surrounding the overdose death of her murderer, thinks about suicide. In chapter 1, Deborah Spungen went into labor five weeks early with her first child and was frightened, but her doctor brushed off her concerns. Nancy was born cyanotic and she developed a severe case of jaundice. Deborah saw her...