02853cam a2200301 4500 1110149562 TxAuBib 20240110120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781797166247 1797166247 5861f487-b10d-4e79-a4c8-d3409cce2a78 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9722106 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Chan, Vanessa. The Storm We Made [OverDrive] : A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 299MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 299MB. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b>* A <i>GOOD MORNING AMERICA</i> BOOK CLUB PICK * One of the</b> <b>"</b><b>most anticipated books of 2024</b><b>"</b> <b>(<i>Oprah Daily</i>), this spellbinding, sweeping novel features a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII—with shocking consequences for her family, and her country.</b><br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Spanning years of pain and triumph, told from the perspectives of four unforgettable characters, <i>The Storm We Made</i> 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. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-01-09 20:00:03. Tan, Samantha. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5861f487-b10d-4e79-a4c8-d3409cce2a78&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5861f487-b10d-4e79-a4c8-d3409cce2a78&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)