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"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...

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Main Author: Chan, Vanessa (Novelist) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2024.
Edition:First Marysue Rucci Books hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Families > Fiction.
Women spies > Fiction.
Mother and child > Fiction.
Missing children > Fiction.
Betrayal > Fiction.
Multiple person narrative > Fiction.
Malaya > History > British rule, 1867-1942 > Fiction.
Malaya > History > Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Malaysia > Fiction.
Families > Malaysia > Fiction.
Malaysia > History > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
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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. Spanning years of pain and triumph, told from the perspectives of four unforgettable characters, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the horrors of war; the fraught relationships between the colonized and their oppressors, and the ambiguity of right and wrong when survival is at stake."--Publisher marketing.
Item Description:"The Good Morning America book club"--Dust jacket.
"A GMA book club pick!"--Dust jacket.
Physical Description:339 pages : map ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781668015148
1668015145
Author Notes:Vanessa Chan is the Malaysian author of internationally bestselling The Storm We Made , a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick, and New York Times Editor's Choice. The novel, her first, will be translated into more than twenty languages worldwide. Her other work has been published in Vogue , Esquire , and more.

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