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A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII— and the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family.
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her 15-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.
Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth.
A 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 Fuijwara 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. 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.
Rapid Rating: Moderate.
Profanity includes 2 uses of strong language, about a dozen instances of moderate profanity, a few uses of mild language, and one or two instances of the name of Deity in vain. Somewhat detailed but brief references to sex. A man sexually assaults another man. Indications that a young woman is being sexually assaulted by men in authority. Violence in prison camps and elsewhere.
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