Everything you need to understand or teach The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan.
Vanessa Chan's novel The Storm We Made traces the lives of the Alcantara family members during World War II in Malaya. When Cecily Alcantara's son Abel disappears in the winter of 1945, she blames herself. She is convinced that her intelligence work with a Japanese general years prior has led to her family's suffering in the present. Meanwhile, Cecily's daughters, Jujube and Jasmin, attempt to survive their own impossible circumstances. Told from the third-person point of view, the novel spans over 10 years and explores themes including grief, guilt, and survival.
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