Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library recently issued the following announcement.
The YA Book Club meets on the 4th Friday of every month to discuss a new book. Due to the holidays, for this month we are meeting on 3rd Friday of the month. Pick up a copy of this month's book from the Downtown Library Information Desk. Email libraryprograms@flagstaffpubliclibrary.org or call 928-213-2331 for additional information.
This month we are meeting at the patio of Cornish Pasty!
You can still join us on zoom here.
This month we are reading:
The Astonishing Color of After
by Emily X.R. Pan (Goodreads Author)
4.10 · Rating details · 23,920 ratings · 4,978 reviews
Leigh Chen 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 meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her best friend and longtime secret crush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life.
Alternating between real and magic, past and present, friendship and romance, hope and despair, The Astonishing Color of After is a novel about finding oneself through family history, art, grief, and love.
Original source can be found here.
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