The Storm We Made

A spellbinding,sweeping novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWIIΓÇöand the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family. Malaya1945. Cecily AlcantaraΓÇÖs family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old sonAbelhas disappearedand her youngest daughterJasminis confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujubewho works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiersbecomes 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 priorCecily 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 espionagepursuing dreams of an ΓÇ£Asia for Asians.ΓÇ¥ InsteadCecily helped usher in an even more brutal occupation by the Japanese. Ten years later as the war reaches its apexher actions have caught up with her. Now her family is on the brink of destructionΓÇöand she will do anything to save them. Spanning years of pain and triumphtold from the perspectives of four unforgettable charactersThe Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the horrors of war; the fraught relationships between the colonized and their oppressorsand the ambiguity of right and wrong when survival is at stake.