Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature "Emily X.
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Visit Emily online at exrpan.com, and find her on Twitter and Instagram: @exrpan..
The Astonishing Color of After is her first novel.
She is the founding editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine , and a 2017 Artist-in-Residence at Djerassi.
She received her MFA in fiction from the NYU Creative Writing Program, where she was a Goldwater Fellow.
Pan currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, but was originally born in the Midwestern United States to immigrant parents from Taiwan.
About the Author: Emily X.
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After her mother\'s suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she\'s never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
A "New York Times" bestseller and selected Bustle Best of YA Books of 2018.
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.
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.
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.
Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time.
An APALA Honor Book A Walter Award Honor Book Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird.
This is a very special book."--John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down A stunning, heartbreaking debut novel about grief, love, and family, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Celeste Ng.
Pan\'s brilliantly crafted, harrowing first novel portrays the vast spectrum of love and grief with heart-wrenching beauty and candor.
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature "Emily X.
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