The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan

Category: Contemporary, General Fiction, Novel, Teen & Young Adult
Language: English
Keywords: American-Taiwanese Artists Asian Grandparents Grief Racially Mixed People Secrets Suicide Supernatural Taiwan

Written by Emily X.R. Pan
Read by Stephanie Hsu
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Hachette Audio
Release date: 20 March 2018
Duration: 11:52:18

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“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 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.

[From Emily X.R. Pan’s own review on Goodreads:]
* New York Times Bestseller
* National Indie Bestseller
* Winner of the APALA Honor Award
* Winner of the Walter Honor Award
* Winner of the Freeman Book Award
* Winner of the “Mental Health Matters” Book Shimmy Award
* Winner of the Millikin Medal
* Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize
* Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal
* Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Debut Author
* Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Young Adult Fiction
* Finalist for the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award
* Shortlisted for the Inky Award
* Nominated for the Lincoln Award
* Six-starred reviews
* #5 on the ABA Indie Next list
* ABA Indies Introduce selection
* Junior Library Guild selection
* Among the Wall Street Journal’s top 12 picks of the season
* Nominated for Book of the Month Club’s Book of the Year
* Featured on over a dozen “Best of the Year” lists by outlets such as NBC News, the New York Public Library, Booklist, Bustle, Entertainment Weekly, Paste, Buzzfeed, and more

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Leigh Chen Sanders is 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.

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HOW I EDITED THIS AUDIOBOOK:

I’ve decided to chapterise this audiobook and manually chop them one-by-one by each chapter. This novel has 108 chapters, which are mostly short (the longest chapter is only 17 minutes and 49 seconds when I edited it) and aren’t named, save for 26 chapters. A note by Miss Pan concludes the novel, which I personally think is important for you all to listen, since it tackles some statistics about suicide from the American Association of Suicidology (or from the World Health Organisation if you’re reading the British edition), and depression.

PLEASE SEED AFTER DOWNLOADING. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.