02694cam a2200325 4500 599934773 TxAuBib 20220604120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780316464925 0316464929 B073P4NNFN Amazon 56b7467d-dd3a-4e9f-b1ac-4f7ac0162257 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3336990 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Pan, Emily X. R. The Astonishing Color of After [Sunflower eLibrary eBook]. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2894kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 2190kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<b>A stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about grief, love, and family, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Celeste Ng.</b><br /> Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird.<br /> 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.<br /> Alternating between real and magic, past and present, friendship and romance, hope and despair, <i>The Astonishing Color of After</i> is a stunning and heartbreaking novel about finding oneself through family history, art, grief, and love.<br /> "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 <i>The Fault in Our Stars</i> and <i>Turtles All the Way Down</i>. Young Adult Literature. Young Adult Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Best Fiction for Young Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-08-03 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=56b7467d-dd3a-4e9f-b1ac-4f7ac0162257&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=56b7467d-dd3a-4e9f-b1ac-4f7ac0162257&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=56b7467d-dd3a-4e9f-b1ac-4f7ac0162257&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)