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“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
An instant New York Times bestseller, this stunning, heartbreaking novel about grief, love, and family is 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 hermaternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined tofind her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing afterghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship withher grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her best friend and longtime secretcrush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life.
Alternating between reality and magic, past and present, hope and despair, The Astonishing Color of After is a luminous debut novel about finding oneself through family history, art, bravery, and love.
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (March 19, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 480 pages
ISBN-10 : 0316464015
ISBN-13 : 978-0316464017
Reading age : 12 years and up
Grade level : 7 and up
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 5.4 x 1.25 x 8.25 inches
Customers say
Customers find the story captivating and relatable. They appreciate the poetic writing style that captures emotions and thoughts of grief well. The book uses colors to describe feelings and emotions, describing it as an elegiac portrait of a family torn apart by secrets. Readers find the journey through grief interesting and heartbreaking, touching with a glimmer of hope. The message of healing through incredible trauma makes this a must-read for them.
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