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"Emily X.R. Pan's brilliantly crafted, harrowing first novel portrays the huge spectral range of love and grief with heart-wrenching beauty and candor. This is an extremely special e book." (John Green, best-selling writer of The Fault in Our Superstars and Turtles Completely Down) A stunning, heartbreaking debut novel about grief, love, and family, ideal for admirers of Jandy Nelson and Celeste Ng. Leigh Chen Sanders is completely certain about one thing: When her mom died by suicide, she converted into a bird. Leigh, who's half Asian and half white, vacations to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is driven to find her mom, the parrot. In her search, she winds up running after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a fresh romantic relationship with her grandparents. So that as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the actual fact that on the same day she kissed her best ally and longtime secret crush, Axel, her mom was taking her own life. Alternating between real and powerful, past and present, camaraderie and romance, expectation and despair, The Astonishing Color of After is a stunning and heartbreaking novel about finding oneself through genealogy, art, grief, and love.
