The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan
Book : The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
Pages : 462
My rating : 🌟🌟🌟🌟
"But that picking and choosing what to look at, what to put on display - that's not the true nature of remembring."
All your life, your Parents hold a secret and you don't know your full family tree, when you don't know who your grandparents are ? You want to trace your lineage desperately but in the midst of all this, your mother committs suicide and you end up in a constant spiral of suffering & your thoughts run haywire that's when lines between fiction and reality become a blur and all this happens to a teenage girl of mixed race.
This book consists a tsunami of emotions and rather than describing it using old fashioned words this author portays those emotions using colours, which is very unique and adds another dimension to this story.
"The urgency & longing wrap around me in swirls of Aureolin and splashes of Violet ."
This book has been placed under the genre of Young adults/ teen but, its apt classification is Fantasy- contemporary / Fiction.
The topics discussed in the book is about Suicide and Depression, which needs to be addressed, helps to acknowledge the social stigma attached with mental disorders - Depression being one of them. This book has many awards and is debut novel of the author mentioned.
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