TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pan, Emily X. R.,
TI  - The astonishing colour of after
SN  - 9781510102965
AV  - PZ7.1.P362 Ast 2018
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2018///.
CY  - London : 
PB  - Orion Children's Books, 
KW  - Children of suicide victims
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Grief
KW  - Artists
KW  - Racially mixed people
KW  - Grandparents
KW  - Americans
KW  - Taiwan
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Suicide
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - Paranormal fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Psychological fiction
N1  - Adolescent
N2  - Leigh Chen Sanders is sixteen when her mother dies by suicide, leaving only a scribbled note: 'I want you to remember'. Leigh doesn't know what it means, but when a red bird appears with a message, she finds herself travelling to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. Leigh is far away from home and far away from Axel, her best friend, who she stupidly kissed on the night her mother died -- leaving her with a swell of guilt that she wasn't home, and a heavy heart, thinking she may have destroyed the one good thing left in her life. Overwhelmed by grief, Leigh retreats into her art and into her memories, where colours collide and the rules of reality are broken. The only thing Leigh is certain about is that she must find out the truth. She must remember. With lyrical prose and magical elements, Emily X.R. Pan's stunning debut novel alternates between past and present, romance and despair, as one girl attempts to find herself through family history, art, friendship, and love
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