The astonishing color of after, Emily X. R. Pan
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The astonishing color of after, Emily X. R. Pan
Language
eng
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fiction
Main title
The astonishing color of after
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Oclc number
1029760109
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Emily X. R. Pan
Summary
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
Target audience
adolescent
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- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Multigenerational
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary
- Grandparents -- Fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / United States / Asian American
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Racially mixed people -- Fiction
- Artists -- Fiction
- Secrets -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Depression
- Paranormal fiction
- Taiwan -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Downloadable audiobooks
- Americans -- Taiwan -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Suicide
- Suicide -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Magical Realism
- Grief -- Fiction
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- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Multigenerational
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary
- Grandparents -- Fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / United States / Asian American
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Racially mixed people -- Fiction
- Artists -- Fiction
- Secrets -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Depression
- Paranormal fiction
- Taiwan -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Downloadable audiobooks
- Americans -- Taiwan -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Suicide
- Suicide -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Magical Realism
- Grief -- Fiction
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- Author1
- Narrator1
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