The Astonishing Color of After

the long version

Leigh Sanders is absolutely 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 stay with her maternal grandparents who she never met. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. As Leigh grieves, she uncovers family secrets, forges a new relationship with her grandparents, and tries to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her best friend and long-time secret crush, Axel, her mothe