The Astonishing Color of After

A ＂New York Times＂ bestseller and selected Bustle Best of YA Books of 2018. 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.

Emily X.R. Pan currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, but was originally born in the Midwestern United States to immigrant parents from Taiwan. She received her MFA in fiction from the NYU Creative Writing Program, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine, and a 2017 Artist-in-Residence at Djerassi. The Astonishing Color of After is her first novel. Visit Emily online at exrpan.com, and find her on Twitter and Instagram: @exrpan.