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Front Matter and Chapters 1 - 11

· The following version of this novel was used to create this Lesson Plan: Pan, Emily X.R. The Astonishing Color of After. E-book, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2018.

· After a dedication and an epigraph from Emily Dickinson, Chapter 1 begins with the announcement that “My mother is a bird. This isn’t like some William Faulkner stream-of-consciousness metaphorical crap. My mother. Is literally. A bird” (1).

· The narrator, Leigh, remarks on her certainty about her mother and on the disbelief of others about her.

· Leigh returns to the death of her mother, relating the circumstances of her return home to find her father staggering out in search of her.

· She notes having returned home from Axel’s, where she had been considering kissing him and the effects thereof on her world and theirs.

· Leigh berates herself for her infatuation and rehearses no small part...

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