The Astonishing Color of After
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The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X R Pan
A Time Magazine 100 Best YA Books of All Time Selection"Emily X.R. Pan's brilliantly crafted, harrowing first novel portrays the vast spectrum of love and grief with heart-wrenching beauty and candor. This is a very special book." -John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down
A stunning, heartbreaking novel about grief, love, and family, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Celeste Ng.
Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird.
Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her best friend and longtime secret crush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life.
Alternating between real and magic, past and present, friendship and romance, hope and despair, The Astonishing Color of After is a stunning and heartbreaking novel about finding oneself through family history, art, grief, and love.
Emily X.R.Pan was born in the Midwest of the United States to Taiwanese immigrant parents and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She was a Goldwater Fellow at NYU's Creative Writing Program where she earned her Masters in fiction. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine, as well as a 2017 Djerassi Artist-in-Residence. Her debut novel is The Amazing Color of After. Emily can be found online at exrpan.com and on Twitter and Instagram as @exrpan.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780316464017 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316464015 |
| Title | The Astonishing Color of After |
| Author | Emily X R Pan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Year published | 2019-03-19 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Prizes | Commended for Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Young Adult Literature) 2019 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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