When it comes out that Leyna was one of the last people to have talked with the young woman, Leyna’s childhood crush Dominic, who is also Adam’s brother, pleads with her to do the last thing she wants to do: come home.īut Leyna isn’t the only one who hasn’t been able to leave that fateful night behind. Sixteen years later, a stranger who looks like Grace shows up at the restaurant where Leyna works - and vanishes soon after. When she was twelve, Leyna Clarke watched her older sister, Grace, walk away from their Sierra Nevada foothills home with her boyfriend, Adam Duran. Two entangled families in a California neighborhood must race to find answers about a missing teenage girl as a wildfire crackles to life nearby… Heather Chavez, WHAT WE’LL BURN LAST (Mulholland) The Storm We Made is out now, published by S&S/Marysue Rucci Books in North America and Hodder & Stoughton in the UK.įollow the Author: Website, Goodreads, Instagram, Twitter Looking forward to reading this as soon as I can. Thought the premise sounded interesting (I used to live in Malaysia, too, as it happens, so that increased my interest). I first learned about this novel because my sister-in-law attended the same MFA course as Chan. 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 fraught relationships between the colonized and their oppressors, and the ambiguity of right and wrong when survival is at stake. Now her family is on the brink of destruction - and she will do anything to save them. Ten years later as the war reaches its apex, her actions have caught up with her. A chance meeting with the charismatic General Fujiwara 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. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day.Ĭecily knows two things: that this is all her fault and that her family must never learn the truth.Ī decade prior, Cecily had been desperate to be more than a housewife to a low-level bureaucrat in British-colonized Malaya. 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. Vanessa Chan, THE STORM WE MADE (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books) A bit of a bumper-edition of New Books - I was away for a couple of weeks, and apparently it was a rather busy period, in terms of review copies… (Certainly no bad thing.)įeaturing: Vanessa Chan, Heather Chavez, Bernard Cornwell, Jeffrey Deaver & Isabella Maldonado, Amitav Ghosh, Rachel Howzell Hall, Gregg Hurwitz, Vera Kurian, Richard Lange, Mike Lawson, Benjamin Liar, Robert W.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |