Name: The Astonishing Color of After
SKU: 51491780
Price: 317.00 ZAR
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Author: Emily X. R. Pan
ISBN: 9780316464017

Type

Physical Book

Author

Emily X. R. Pan

Publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

480

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6x13.7x3.3 cm

Weight

0.40 kg.

ISBN13

9780316464017

Edition No.

N/A

Synopsis "The Astonishing Color of After "

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

Emily X. R. Pan

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Emily X. R. Pan was born in Illinois as an only child to Taiwanese parents who immigrated to the United States, though she now lives in Brooklyn. After studying at the Stern School of Business at New York University, she worked as the editor-in-chief at the Washington Square Review.

In 2017, she published The Astonishing Color of After (Nocturna, 2020), which made it onto the New York Times bestseller list, was translated into seven languages, received fabulous reviews, and won multiple awards.

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