The Astonishing Color of After
of Emily X.R. Pan (Goodreads Author)
Description
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 novel about finding oneself through family history, art, grief, and love.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 480 pages
- Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Publication Date March 20th 2018
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780316463997
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
- Scenario ['Taipei (Taiwan)']
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