All the Tomorrows After by Joanne Yi

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All the Tomorrows After by Joanne Yi

Young adult

All the Tomorrows After

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by Joanne Yi

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A teenage girl strikes an unusual bargain with her estranged father in this poignant, heartbreaking novel.

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Synopsis

Each night, Winter Moon counts her earnings dreaming of escape. Once she’s saved enough, she and her grandmother can finally take flight and disappear. But when her spiteful mother steals her money and blows through it all in one day, Winter is forced to turn to her estranged father, who recently reappeared in her life after being absent for more than a decade. They agree upon a simple contract: she spends time with him in exchange for payment.

It’s not easy reconciling the past and the present, though, and when she’s struck with a sudden loss, Winter flounders in grief and rage. The only person offering a hand is Joon, the new boy at school who sees Winter when no one else does.

When Winter discovers a secret her father has been keeping from her, things get even more complicated. As she navigates grief, first love, and forgiveness, Winter begins to forge connections, new and old, that make her question her future, her conviction to disappear, and what it really means to be family. Winter knows that broken things can never be fixed, but can they come back together in a different way?

Content warning

This book contains scenes depicting child abuse.

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All the Tomorrows After

1.

When I was five, my halmoni taught me how to make origami cranes. I watched the paper squares transform into proud creatures, each intricate fold hidden from view. Peacock blue, marigold yellow, inky violet peppered with stars.

Sometimes I think of those cranes. How existence can sprout from nothing. How I’ve mastered the art of folding into myself, pleat by tiny pleat. How I wait, yet, for the majestic to unfurl.

Sometimes I head up to the roof and peer over the crumbling wall, six stories to the ground. The thrill of falling, without the fall. My body both drained and energized, quaking with the reminder of being alive.

The view over this side of Sierra Park isn’t great. A grid of worn-out homes and strip malls, lawns yellowing from too much California sun. But it’s about the possibilities—the prospect of escape, the idea that I’ll become fully realized once I’m gone.

I subsist on it, that burrowing want. For emergence. A budding. A release.

I wait. And I wait.

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Why I love it

If your favorite books are heartfelt, emotional, and require an entire box of tissues, you are going to love All the Tomorrows After. The story follows Korean-American teen Winter Moon, who has one mission: to earn enough money so she and her grandmother can escape her selfish mom. In the midst of grief and heartbreak, she reunites with her estranged father and finds an unexpected family as well as first love.

This has been one of my most satisfying reading experiences this year. The writing is eloquent and lyrical, and the story has great depth and relatable emotion. Winter Moon is an old young person—she’s young in age, but has dealt with a lot of hardship, betrayal, and heartache. She’s aware of her larger-than-life emotions, and she’s trying to manage them and navigate the world until she finds her way.

I read this book in one sitting, fully invested in the story. Winter and the rest of the cast each have their own story to tell, and Joanne Yi weaves everything together beautifully for a satisfying ending. I was blown away to learn that this is her debut novel and cannot wait to see what she brings us next.

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All the Tomorrows After
Finding Grace
Among Friends
These Summer Storms
A Family Matter
The River Is Waiting
Home of the American Circus
The Names
Six Days in Bombay
Wild Dark Shore
A Season of Light
Good Dirt
The House of My Mother
What Happened to the McCrays?
A Killing Cold
Isaac’s Song
A Home for the Holidays
Rental House
Dinner for Vampires
The Night We Lost Him
Madwoman
Hum
Family Happiness
Incidents Around the House
Husbands & Lovers
Same As It Ever Was
Jackpot Summer
The Lion Women of Tehran
Did I Ever Tell You?
Real Americans
Just for the Summer
All We Were Promised
Hard by a Great Forest
Family Family
Northwoods
Mercury
The Second Chance Year
A Winter in New York
Check & Mate
What We Kept to Ourselves
The Leftover Woman
While You Were Out
Evil Eye
Just Another Missing Person
Family Lore
Little Monsters
The Connellys of County Down
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Paper Names
Divine Rivals
Hang the Moon
The Last Russian Doll
Maame
White Horse
The Family Game
The Fortunes of Jaded Women
You're Invited
Marrying the Ketchups
Part of Your World
The Good Left Undone
The Verifiers
The Unsinkable Greta James
Don't Cry for Me
Black Cake
Olga Dies Dreaming
The Family
The Book of Magic
Crying in H Mart
Sankofa
Everything We Didn't Say
Apples Never Fall
The Sweetest Remedy
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
We Are the Brennans
Skye Falling
Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
Things We Lost to the Water
Libertie
What's Mine and Yours
The Bad Muslim Discount
The Chicken Sisters
In a Holidaze
White Ivy
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
Practical Magic
Head Over Heels
The Vanishing Half
All Adults Here
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Saving Zoë
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