A National Bestseller
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in danger: her 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 this is all her fault. A decade prior, a chance meeting with General Fujiwara lured Cecily 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. Now her family is on the brink of destruction - and she will do anything to save them.