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The Astonishing Color of After Paperback - 2019

by Emily X. Pan

A "New York Times" bestseller and selected Bustle Best of YA Books of 2018. After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she's never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.

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A Time Magazine 100 Best YA Books of All Time Selection A stunning, heartbreaking debut 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'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

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  • Title The Astonishing Color of After
  • Author Emily X. Pan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Date 2019-03-19
  • ISBN 9780316464017 / 0316464015
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.3 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 3.30 cm)
  • Ages 14 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 9 - 12
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Racially mixed people, Grief
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Emily X.R. Pan currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, but was originally born in the Midwestern United States to immigrant parents from Taiwan. She received her MFA in fiction from the NYU Creative Writing Program, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine, and a 2017 Artist-in-Residence at Djerassi. She is the author ofThe Astonishing Color of After and An Arrow to the Moon. Visit Emily online at exrpan.com, and find her on Twitter and Instagram: @exrpan.
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