The Astonishing Color of After
Ratings25
Average rating4.1
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Ratings25
Average rating4.1
As extraordinárias cores do amanhã já foi indicado como um dos melhores livros para ler em 2018 pela American Booksellers Association e emocionou escritores como John Green e Gayle Forman. Leigh Chen Sanders é uma garota meio asiática, meio americana, e precisa lidar com um fato: no mesmo dia em que beijou Axel, seu melhor amigo (e paixão secreta há anos), sua mãe se suicidou. Além disso, Leigh tem plena certeza de que a mãe virou um pássaro. Ao viajar rumo a Taiwan para encontrar os avós maternos pela primeira vez, ela está determinada a também encontrar a mãe, o pássaro. Nessa busca, a garota precisa enfrentar fantasmas antigos ao descobrir segredos da família e desenvolver uma nova relação com seus avós ao mesmo tempo em que lida com o próprio luto. Alternando entre o real e o fantástico, o passado e o presente, a amizade e o romance, a esperança e o desespero, As extraordinárias cores do amanhã é uma história maravilhosa e profunda sobre como se encontrar a partir dos laços com sua família, sua arte, sua dor e seu amor.
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Beautifully written with enough magical realism to be interesting but not overwhelming. I liked the art/colors/synethesia elements and that the bulk of the story took place in Taiwan (and the audiobook gave me all the real Chinese). The friendship/romantic elements dragged and the book as a whole didn't need to be 450 pages. Definitely deserving of the APALA Honor recognition but at that length and with a slow burning plot I'm going to have a hard time finding an audience for this book.
Just WOW. The Astonishing Color of After is about a teenage girl, an artist, dealing with her mother's depression and ensuing suicide. Part of what makes the book so fascinating is Leigh's constant description of colors. She uses color as shorthand for emotions - her grandmother might have a vermilion expression on her face, or she might be feeling very orange while staring at her mother's coffin at the funeral. Between colors-as-feelings and her insomnia-induced hallucinations (or magic - the book is deliberately, I think, noncommittal on whether some things only happen in her head or not) the entire book feels a little surrealistic. But grief and mourning DO feel surrealistic. The book is amazingly evocative and emotional and I absolutely adore it. This, along with City of Brass and Children of Blood and Bone, are definitely on my Best of 2018 list.
As an added bonus, the author is the American child of Taiwanese immigrants herself. So all the ghost traditions and folklore from Leigh's journey to Taiwan are from her ancestry as well.
This book was gorgeous. It may need a trigger warning for depression and suicide. If you can handle those themes, read it.
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how is this book an amalgamation of everything i wanted out of several other books but better
This was a beautiful book. It really explores loss, depression, and relationships. Although it was not a 5 star book for me I would still recommend it to fans of YA.
