The Storm We Made

✍ Scribed by Vanessa Chan

• Book ID: 112166777
• Publisher: S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: EN-US
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781668015162

✦ Synopsis

A spellbinding, sweeping novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII --and the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family.
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...