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Grand Forks Public Library North Dakota - The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan 01 January 2024 ( news )
Grand Forks Public Library , state North Dakota ( By Press Release office)
Jan 01,2024
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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 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 Madeis 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 .
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