The release date for the English version of 'The Astonishing Color of After' by
Emily X.R. Pan is Mar 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Leigh Chen Sanders is certain about one thing: her mother changed into a bird after committing herself.
Leigh, who is half Asian and half White, goes to Taiwan for the first time to meet her parents. She is committed to finding her mother, the bird, there. She discovers family secrets, pursues ghosts, and forges a new bond with her grandparents as a result of her quest. In addition, as she grieves, she has to make sense of the fact that her mother committed suicide the same day she planted a kiss on her closest friend and lifelong hidden crush, Axel.
A book about discovering oneself via family history, art, loss, and love, The Astonishing Colour of After alternates between real and magic, past and present, friendship and romance, hope and despair.