Books I read in June!
I find that I can never do books justice in giving a synopsis, but I liked this one from Good Reads. The book is really powerful and shed light on part of history that I was not aware of!
"The story is set in Malaya, 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. 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."
After "The Storm We Made", I wanted a lighthearted read on creativity and story telling. SARK is also the author of the "Creative Companion", written in the 1990s that I just loved. She's a creative soul and I really enjoy her artistic approach to life and all things that go into living life to the fullest.
