Her decision changed history.
Now her family must survive it.

Destined to become a modern-day classic, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the power of familial love in the face of the horrors of war, for fans of Pachinko and All the Light We Cannot See.


Japanese-occupied Malaya, 1945.
Cecily Alcantara's children are in terrible danger.
Her eldest child Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day.
Jasmin, the youngest, lives confined in a basement for her own safety.
And her son, Abel, has disappeared without a trace.
Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth.