A review by bookreviewswithkb
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

thank you @simonandschuster and @marysueruccibooks for the advanced copy! this is on sale January 2nd

“the British had come for the camp and bombed it to hell, to wipe out any way for the Japanese to transport supplies. and yet the only men who lay on the ground in piles of ash and limbs were conscripted boys who had, against the odds, survived the Japanese torture only to die at the hands of their supposed saviors.”

a well-written, deeply intimate novel centered on Malaya (present day Malaysia) during WWII, moving from British to Japanese and back to British rule. the main character, Cecily, betrays her family to help a Japanese soldier in his quest to bring Malaya under Japanese rule. the problem though is that colonization is never the answer, no matter who the colonizer is. the horrors that come to Cecily’s family create such depths of shame and guilt that she becomes a shell of a human being. this is the pain of oppression. the pain of dehumanization. the pain of senseless bombing in the name of power

Free P@lestine 

Free Sudan

Free Congo

Free all colonized nations