{"product_id":"storm-we-made-vanessa-chan-simon-and-schuster","title":"Storm We Made - Vanessa Chan - Simon and Schuster","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn this “espionage-laden family epic” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), an ordinary housewife becomes an unlikely spy—and her dark secrets will test even the most unbreakable ties.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMalaya, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 Fujiwara lured her into a life of espionage, pursuing dreams of an “Asia for Asians.” 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold from the perspectives of four unforgettable characters,\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e The Storm We Made\u003c\/span\u003e spans years of pain, triumph, and perseverance. “The tenderness in its details, the ordinary ways that these characters love and laugh in the face of the extraordinary…Chan shows us, with clarity and care, how the truest mirror comes from the intimacy of human connection” (\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e).","brand":"Frames Etc ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62824761950367,"sku":"168503662054","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0632\/9450\/5119\/files\/IMG_8791_e0bd3c6a-6116-48e7-90eb-b08e24fea2fa.jpg?v=1783106421","url":"https:\/\/www.framesetc.net\/products\/storm-we-made-vanessa-chan-simon-and-schuster","provider":"Frames Etc ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}