Pan's brilliantly crafted, harrowing first novel portrays the vast spectrum of love and grief with heart-wrenching beauty and candor. 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.Īlternating 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. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. It is a heart-rending story about what it means. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. The Astonishing Color of After is a thoughtful exploration of defining and discovering identitycultural, artistic, familial, and personal. Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. 4 The novel follows 15-year old Leigh, who deals with her mother's recent death by suicide through traveling to Taiwan and meeting her maternal grandparents. A Time Magazine 100 Best YA Books of All Time SelectionĪ stunning, heartbreaking debut novel about grief, love, and family, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Celeste Ng. Pan's debut novel, The Astonishing Color of After, was published by Little, Brown in March 2018 and debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List at 10.
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