The Astonishing Color of After
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year
2018
ISBN
9780316463997
Pages
472 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
Grade Level
6-8; 9-12
Lexile Measure
HL670L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Culture/Ethnicity; Racial Diversity; Family member death; Language barrier; Bicultural; Biracial; death of a mother; grief; loss; different languages; bicultural teenager; cultural heritage; biracial family; biracial teenager
Main Character
female teenager
Race/Ethnicities
Taiwanese American / White
Family Formation
widowed father
Keywords
Taiwan; grandparents; family secrets; memories; suicide; family history
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Pan, Emily X.R., "The Astonishing Color of After" (2018). Diverse Families. 1421.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1421