The Hunger We Pass Down

Name: The Hunger We Pass Down
Brand: McClelland & Stewart
SKU: 07024544

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7391901The Hunger We Pass Downhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-hunger-we-pass-down-9780771012877/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6983678/image.jpg?v=638776184448570000406406MXNMcClelland & StewartInStock/Audiolibros/From the bestselling author of Superfan comes a haunting novel about the demons passed down through five generations of women in a Chinese Canadian family, and what it might take for them to finally break free of the past.Single mother Alice Chow is drowning. With a booming online business, a resentful teenage daughter, a screen-obsessed son, and a secret boyfriend, she can never get everything done in a day. So its a relief when Alice wakes up one morning to find the counters are clear, the kids rooms are tidy, and orders are neatly packed and labelled. But she doesnt remember staying up late to take care of things. As the strange pattern continues, she realizes someoneor somethinghas been doing her chores for her.Alice knows she should feel uneasy, but the extra time lets her connect with her children and with her hard-edged mother, who has started to share shocking stories from their family historybeginning with the horrors that befell her great-grandmother, who was imprisoned as a comfort woman in Hong Kong during the Second World War. But the familys demonsboth real and subconscious, old and neware about to become impossible to ignore.Set against the gleaming backdrop of contemporary Vancouver, The Hunger We Pass Down is a devastating, horror-tinged novel about how unspoken legacies of violence can shape a family. It follows the relentless spectre of intergenerational trauma as it is handed down from mother to daughter, and asks what it might take to break the cycleheroism, depravity, or both....7024544The Hunger We Pass Down406406https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-hunger-we-pass-down-9780771012877/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6983678/image.jpg?v=638776184448570000InStockMXN99999PR_DIAudiolibro20259780771012877_W3siaWQiOiI5OWNkMWU2NS1jZDdjLTRjMDYtOWM2OS1lNzYyNWFhM2RiZTMiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQwNiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjAsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6NDA2LCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNS0wNy0wMVQwMDowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOnRydWUsImlzRWxpZ2libGVGb3JDcmVkaXRUcmlhbCI6dHJ1ZSwiY3JlZGl0UHVyY2hhc2VQcmljZSI6MX1d9780771012877_From the bestselling author of Superfan comes a haunting novel about the long-unacknowledged demons that are passed down through four generations of women in a Chinese Canadian family, and what it might take for them to finally break free of the past.Divorced single mother Alice Chow is drowning. With a booming online business, a resentful teenage daughter, a screen-obsessed son, and a secret boyfriend, she can never get everything done in a day. Its all she can do to just collapse on the couch with a bottle of wine every night.So its a relief when Alice wakes up one morning to find the counters are clear, the kids rooms are tidy, orders are neatly packed and labelled. But she doesnt remember staying up late to take care of things. As the strange pattern continues, Alice knows she should feel uneasy, but the extra time lets her connect with her children and with her hard-edged mother, Judy, who begins to open up about the dark chapters in their family historyso she cant possibly have anything to worry about, could she?Interwoven into Alices present-day narrative are the vivid, heartbreaking, and unspoken histories of her mother Judy, her grandmother Bette, and her great-grandmother Gigi, who was imprisoned and abused as a comfort woman under the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during the Second World War. As old, suppressed hurts fester, Alice and her family are left to contend with the unresolved demonsboth real and imaginedthat emerge from their personal and collective shadows. Threaded with the myths of the Asian diaspora and set against the gleaming backdrop of contemporary Vancouver, The Hunger We Pass Down exposes the grief, loss, and fear we all carry, but desperately wish we could forget....(*_*)9780771012877_From the bestselling author of Superfan comes a haunting novel about the demons passed down through five generations of women in a Chinese Canadian family, and what it might take for them to finally break free of the past.Single mother Alice Chow is drowning. With a booming online business, a resentful teenage daughter, a screen-obsessed son, and a secret boyfriend, she can never get everything done in a day. So its a relief when Alice wakes up one morning to find the counters are clear, the kids rooms are tidy, and orders are neatly packed and labelled. But she doesnt remember staying up late to take care of things. As the strange pattern continues, she realizes someoneor somethinghas been doing her chores for her.Alice knows she should feel uneasy, but the extra time lets her connect with her children and with her hard-edged mother, who has started to share shocking stories from their family historybeginning with the horrors that befell her great-grandmother, who was imprisoned as a comfort woman in Hong Kong during the Second World War. But the familys demonsboth real and subconscious, old and neware about to become impossible to ignore.Set against the gleaming backdrop of contemporary Vancouver, The Hunger We Pass Down is a devastating, horror-tinged novel about how unspoken legacies of violence can shape a family. It follows the relentless spectre of intergenerational trauma as it is handed down from mother to daughter, and asks what it might take to break the cycleheroism, depravity, or both....9780771012877_McClelland & Stewartaudiolibro_9780771012877_9780771012877Jen SookfongInglésMéxico2025-09-09T00:00:00+00:00NoMINUTE2025-09-09T00:00:00+00:00McClelland & Stewart