02469cam a2200373 i 4500 1117574550 TxAuBib 20240116120000.0 231215s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781668015148 hardback 1668015145 hardback (OCoLC)1374244507 TxAuBib rda Chan, Vanessa,. The storm we made : a novel / Vanessa Chan. First edition. New York : Marysue Rucci Books, 2024. 339 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 20240116. 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. Historical fiction. lcgft War fiction.