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Malaysia, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her son Abel, aged fifteen, has disappeared and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is locked in a cellar to avoid being put into service in the sanitary blocks. . His eldest daughter, Jujube, who works in a tea house frequented by drunken Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day.
Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that his family must never learn the truth.
Ten years earlier, Cecily was desperate to be more than the housewife of a low-level bureaucrat in British-colonized Malaysia. A chance meeting with the charismatic General Fuijwara lured her into a life of espionage, pursuing her 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 climax, her actions catch up with her. Her family is now 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 tense relationships between the colonized and their oppressors, and the ambiguity of good and evil when survival is at stake.
Vanessa Chan was born and raised in Malaysia. His short stories have appeared in Electric Lit, Kenyon Review, Ecotone, etc. She was a 2021 Stanley Elkin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers Conference and also received study awards to attend the Bread Loaf and Tin House writers conferences. The Storm We Made is his first novel.
Chan will be in conversation with Shannon Sanders. Shannon Sanders is a Black writer and attorney and the author of the upcoming short story collection Company. Sanders' short fiction received a 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Award for Emerging Writers and has appeared in several publications, including One Story, TriQuarterly, Joyland, Electric Literature and elsewhere. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband and three sons.
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