The storm we made.
The storm we made.
By
:
Chan, Vanessa (Novelist)
Publication Date
:
2024
Subject Term
:
Betrayal -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Missing children -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Genre
:
War stories.
Historical fiction.
Summary
:
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth. A decade prior, Cecily had been desperate to be more than a housewife to a low-level bureaucrat in British-colonized Malaya. A chance meeting with the charismatic General Fuijwara lured her into a life of espionage, pursuing dreams of an "Asia for Asians." Instead, Cecily helped usher in an even more brutal occupation by the Japanese. Ten years later as the war reaches its apex, her actions have caught up with her. Now her family is on the brink of destruction--and she will do anything to save them.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781668015148
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Conception Bay South (ACS) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC CHA | Checked In |
Lewisporte (GLE) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC CHA | Checked In |
Port Aux Basques (WPB) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC CHA | Being Held |
St. John's - Michael Donovan (SJB) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC CHA | Checked In |