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Jan 2, 2024 · THE STORM WE MADE, by Vanessa Chan. “Isn’t every man a good man and a bad man?” asks Cecily Alcantara, the protagonist of Vanessa Chan’s debut novel, “The Storm We Made,” which is set...
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Jan 2, 2024 · THE STORM WE MADE. by Vanessa Chan ‧RELEASE DATE: Jan. 2, 2024. A chilling exploration of the costs of human weakness and desire, in a compelling and vividly wrought historical context. bookshelf. shop now. In World War II Malaysia, a woman discovers her pre-war miscalculations have ruined her life.
Jan 2, 2024 · 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.
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Jan 17, 2024 · The Storm We Made, Vanessa Chan (Marysue Rucci Books, Hodder & Stoughton, January 2024) Set in Malaya between the mid-1930s and 1945, the story is told in alternating points of view from Cecily Alcantara and her children Jujube, Abel and Jasmin.
- The Storm We Made artfully and affectingly interweaves intimate family life with significant historical events. Did one element—the characters, the setting—come to you first, or was the complete picture with you from the beginning?
- The book also moves between the points of view of four characters in two different time periods, a layering that captures the varying experiences even members of a single family can have of colonization and war.
- You have described the role your family played in the inspiration, research, and even fact-checking of the book. How have they responded to the finished product?
- If you could claim any writers from the past as part of your own literary genealogy, who would your ancestors be? I feel connected to Eileen Chang and Min Jin Lee for the content of their novels since both Lust Caution and Pachinko cover similar time periods and the effects of colonization.
Like the most dazzling historical fiction, The Storm We Made etches intimate details on an epic canvas. Vanessa Chan’s characters face agonizing choices under the darkness of colonization and war, and yet she imbues them with an indelible spirit of resistance that never lets you forget the light.
May 22, 2024 · Beautiful local Li and Jewish refugee Romy form a fierce friendship, but the deepening shadows of World War II fall over the women as they slip between the city's glamorous French Concession district and the teeming streets of the Shanghai Ghetto.
